Quinn Slobodian
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2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Quinn Slobodian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So the idea is there can be AI agents, which could theoretically form their own companies.
Oh, my God.
Could then be recognized as corporations.
So you could have there a business model where not only is the corporation sort of cosplaying as a person, but the corporation doesn't even involve any people in its leadership or direction.
I mean, it's still science fiction-y.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's cyclical.
I mean, this is one of the things we really want to push in the book too, is like,
The history of technology has not just been one way oppression.
Actually, you can only explain the rightward shift of Silicon Valley people by the fact that people were using network technologies for emancipatory ways in 2020 and 2021.
Right.
Biggest street protests in American history.
You don't get those without people being able to, like, film things on Periscope.
Get organized things on Twitter.
You don't get the trans rights movement.
You don't get the rebirth of kind of anti-racism attacks on workplace harassment like Me Too.
These are like hashtag activism movements, but they had real life political effects and they changed the mood in the country.
And it was because of that, the kind of scrambling of affiliations, new kinds of solidarity that actually horizontal communication makes possible that people like Musk freaked out.
We're like, no, we need to buy that technology now.
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