Nathaniel Whittemore
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52,364 appearances
204 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 204 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 31.
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And the lack of accountability for the institutions and institutional leaders who were involved in creating that particular economic crisis.
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Obviously the left and the right's reaction to that particular context were different, but it is, I would contend, perhaps less surprising than you think, that at some point these two would find common ground.
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And to be clear, I am not dismissing the common ground that they find just on the merits of this particular issue itself, and the power of this particular issue to scramble existing political alliances.
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I'm just making the point that their stories are actually more intertwined than you might think at first glance.
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In any case, the event seemed somewhat less about the existential risks of AI that have filled the headlines this week and more about the class struggle the technology has come to represent.
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TV screens played a parody interview from a fictional AI CEO, described as someone who loves people but isn't crazy about humans.
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Throughout the event, it seemed that AI itself wasn't the risk that needs addressing, but rather the unchecked power of oligarchs.
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Now you might remember that back in August, journalist Jasmine Sun towards the country speaking to real people who were working in opposition to data centers, and found that the most common complaint was not about electricity, water use, or noise pollution, but a lack of control and the sense that the future was being forced upon their communities with little input.
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The same was true about this event.
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Across multiple speakers, the risk of AI was not framed around cybersecurity, bioterrorism, or other X risks.
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was about a lack of agency in determining the shape of the future.
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From this followed their main concern, which was simply the idea of losing control of AI.
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As Texas Democrat Greg Cassar, who is sponsoring Bernie Sanders' superintelligence bill, said
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The answer is simple.
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We ban AI systems that are too powerful for humans to control.
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And as strange as it might seem, despite all the intensity of this rhetoric recently, I still contend that we've moved into a new phase that's all about negotiating the relationship where citizens and governments have a stake in this, and where given that that is now pretty much where everyone is, the next phase is likely to include a lot more specificity, and dare I say nuance.
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Glenn Beck, for example, had a long monologue on his show about how he can both have signed the pro-human AI Declaration alongside them, but also disagree with them on specifics of data centers.
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And honestly, as crazy as it sounds, I think that the more that the political discourse kind of frags your brain for how confusing and all over the place it is, that might just be a sign that we're actually making progress.
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The conversation also found its way into Salesforce's annual Dreamforce event, where the company unveiled.
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Build a new AI model, but where a lot of the chatter on social media focused on appearances from Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Dario Amade, who each iterated their own safety views.
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