The Trillion-Dollar AI Race to Replace Us (with Garrison Lovely)
Garrison Lovely is an author and journalist. He joins the podcast to discuss the race to replace human labor with artificial general intelligence. We explore the political risks of worker displacement and lessons from historical precedents like the nuclear freeze movement. Garrison also examines rising public opposition to AI data centers and outlines strategies for organizing collective action to steer technological development.
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Universal labor replacement
Economic obsolescence and power
Replacement versus extinction risk
The AI bubble debate
Rising public backlash
Lessons from nuclear freeze
AGI is not inevitable
Organizing collective action
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