Brendan O'Connor

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14,242 appearances 153 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6d ago

Brendan O'Connor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Brendan O'Connor · Mark Little - We can take back our power over AI · 20 Sep 2026 podcast

And you basically went in there and realized this is broken, this whole thing. voice-verified

headquarters. voice-verified

You were the colonial viceroy for voice-verified

So another inflection point, 2016, when Donald Trump came on the world stage, you also say that is when our shared reality began to collapse. voice-verified

Was that all the Internet's fault? voice-verified

But was there a point then at which the worst became more amplified by it? voice-verified

Was the worst more prone to be amplified by it, like rage and poison and that? voice-verified

and did the real humans see the internet see twitter and these spaces then to those crazies in the end then when it started to look like that did people withdraw a bit from it the ordinary people voice-verified

Did the pandemic accelerate all that as well? voice-verified

do we leave those people down in the pandemic? voice-verified

very much a thing of you're either with us or against us here. voice-verified

And if you're questioning things at all, voice-verified

you're almost banishing people off into conspiracy voice-verified

Now, is there a background to all this then that the big tech companies and the kind of cult leaders who run them were seen as kind of Silicon Valley hippies and liberals and then voice-verified

now we regard them all as kind of almost right-wing edgelords like did they they flipped at some point did they and that didn't help voice-verified

Yeah, you say in the book that's the most consequent ideology of our age. voice-verified

So tell people what accelerationism voice-verified

an incredibly powerful guy in terms of the people he has mentored and financed and everything else. voice-verified

And the people might know him as well as some of the others, but he's the background voice-verified

But voice-verified

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