Nathaniel Whittemore
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52,650 appearances
205 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard yesterday
Nathaniel Whittemore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 205 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 31.
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This is a hinge in history.
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We have to handle this correctly.
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To handle it correctly, number one, we can never trust what an oligarch says.
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Now, I will note that while this seems strange at first,
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First, these two highly ideologically opposed people sharing the same stage, the broader movements they connect to have a fair bit of shared context and history.
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The 2016 presidential election, in which Bernie was narrowly beaten by Hillary to miss out on becoming the Democrat nominee, and in which Bannon obviously architected the first Trump administration, both had their roots in populist anger at the post-GFC financial landscape.
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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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