Delisted: A Film About AI-Powered Social Erasure (with Michael Patrick Clarkson)
Michael Patrick Clarkson is the writer and director of the film Delisted.
He joins the podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence could enable state surveillance, social control, and the digital erasure of dissenters. The conversation explores the societal costs of widespread automation across education and labor, the risks of public-private partnerships in technology oversight, and the importance of preserving human connection and creative agency amid rapid technological change.
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Introducing the film Delisted
Public and private surveillance
Human cost of automation
Losing connection through technology
Social divisions over automation
Communicating the AI warning
State surveillance and erasure
Escapism and systemic exhaustion
Becoming more human
Discarding the AI creators
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