Yanis Varoufakis
speaker
1,142 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The question is not, is it useful?
Of course it's useful.
The question is, who owns it?
And who is excluded from using it?
And those who own it, what do they do with it?
Because you see, there is a profound difference between
a tool that helps me, as he said, do things more efficiently, take the chore out of my work and leave me with the creative aspects of my work, which give me purpose in life, that's great.
But when you have machines that are owned by 0.001% of the population,
that have the capacity to engage with you personally on a dialogue.
and pretend to be your servants, like Alexa, Amazon's Alexa, or, you know, Apple's Siri, or the Google Assistant, or whatever, one of these assistants, or the Instacart assistant, for that matter.
And they give you the feeling that you can say, you know, switch off the lights, buy me some milk, order me an electric bicycle for my daughter or my son, and they do it.
And it's great.
Who doesn't like that?
But what is really happening is you're interfacing with what I call the cloud capital of Jeff Bezos of this 0.0001%.
And essentially, that machine...
trains you to train it, to train you better, so that you train it even better, to know you so well that it wins your trust.
And once it has won your trust, then it can direct your choices.
Then, you know, you say, my coffee maker is broken.
What should I buy?
It says this.
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