Harvard Professor Jill Lepore discusses her new book on the ideological roots of Big Tech technocrats and tech’s damage to democratic gains over centuries of political struggle.
Hedges Report: ‘The Rise & Fall of the Artificial State’
Tag: AI
Caitlin Johnstone: Today in Dystopia
In just one of the multiplying examples of abusive technology developments, physical literature is being destroyed in order to train generative AI products to take our jobs and pollute our environment.
Jeffrey Sachs: The Enduring US War on Russia
Eisenhower’s warning that U.S. policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite explains why Washington sustains the war in Ukraine as a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale.
Jonathan Cook: There’s No End to History
The “end of history,” as Fukuyama should have foreseen, could lead to only one destination: enslavement. Only the colonial arrogance of the West could imagine that others would submit to such a fate.
Hedges Report: The Trillion Dollar War Machine
The military-industrial-complex has grown into a monster so powerful that even its earliest critics likely never foresaw its evolution. In the age of Big Tech’s rising power, can anything stop it?
DAY 9: ATTACK ON IRAN
U.S. nuclear command planes in the region; Lindsey Graham doesn’t like the new Iran supreme leader and tells the IDF how to run the war; and an AI fake of captured U.S. soldiers is exposed.
Hedges Report: Construction of the Surveillance State
Whitney Webb on how mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways under the Trump administration.
The Geopolitics of Algorithms: TikTok, Oracle & Israel
Miguel Ruíz on the union of technology, geopolitics and the military in the interests of Israel.
AI & the End of Thinking?
Wolfgang Messner explores the risks that mediocrity and conformity will accompany an AI-powered cognitive revolution.
The Chris Hedges Report: America’s Academic Gulag
“Putting dangerous technology in dangerous hands” — MIT PhD students Prahlad Iyengar and Richard Solomon discuss their school’s collaboration with Israel’s extermination campaign and how dissidents are being suppressed.