Rob Russo

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1,284 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

Rob Russo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It points to Luddites, who in the 18th century, if they had been successful, what would we be doing now?

Well, we'd probably still be communicating with the equivalent of a hammer and chisel and tablets of stone.

You can't do that.

I mean, lots of governments in Europe are taxing the windfall profits of AI companies.

Do they want to do that?

Probably not, but they want a piece of the action.

And so are they going to invest our taxpayer dollars in some of this so that the money actually can be used?

to retrain, to prepare adaptation for this?

Yeah, they're going to do that.

But there's a recognition of this fear out there.

And there's also a recognition of the political fear.

I mean, they see mentions of AI being booed at commencement ceremonies across the

the country and they see that.

And so, you know, here's the political fear for them, though, like they've looked at what happened in the failures of globalization, free trade.

You know, we were promised that people would not be left behind in free trade and people were left behind.

They were left behind in the dotcom boom as well.

Those people who were left behind

A lot of people thought they wouldn't vote, and a lot of them didn't vote, particularly in the United States.

But they coalesced, and who did they propel and catapult into power?

But Donald Trump, right?

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