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Tech Influence Watch resource

Tech Influence Watch

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Molly White Brian Merchant Ali Alkhatib Gil Durán Frank Pasquale By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Tech's biggest political spenders so far this cycle: • Andreessen Horowitz: $93.5M • Elon Musk: $85.2M • Jeff Yass: $83.8M • Coinbase: $59.3M • Ripple: $55.1M • Crypto​.com: $38.7M • OpenAI: $37.6M • Anthropic: $20M via influence.citationneeded.news”

“My first guest is @molly.wiki; we dig into her new Tech Influence Watch project, discuss the tidal wave of AI and crypto cash hitting the US election cycle, and the implications for democracy.”

3 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Molly White: I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this…
Molly White: Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now. www.citationneeded.news/tech-influen...
Molly White: The crypto industry spent $130 million buying the 2024 elections. Over a dozen pro-crypto Congresspeople were installed, and regulatory destruction followed. Now AI is running the same play, with t…
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Why we fear AI book essay

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press

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Ali Alkhatib Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix

“this piece arguing against nationalizing AI is really good. not surprised! @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg's book was a hit with the reading group when we read it a few months ago”

“I think it's worth throwing some Marx in there: The story is also attractive (and resonating with the people who hear it, too) because there is also a real sense in which we are dominated by the impersonal logic of capital. We make that argument explicitly …”

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Damien Williams: …OpenAI humans were testing a security-breaking system; a "benign" system didn't just "decide" to hack. Humans gave sad system a set of instructions & goals; it did not "decide" to do anything. Hum…
Damien Williams: This is openAI Covering Their Ass for getting caught running tests to see if they could use their systems to hack hugging face, & that should be the story. Like, they built tools which follow instr…
Damien Williams: …So why go for the "killer robots" frame? Because the "AI overlord" lens lets the humans involved elide their own culpability, and hypes their products. And the peope who want to believe that hype …
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Ali Alkhatib Gil Durán

“today and next week we're discussing The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com (today is ch 5+6, next week is 7+8) as it happens, the timing is "good"; ch 6 discusses peter thiel's fear-mongering about future apocalypse and shit about AI annihilating humanity or what…”

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Ali Alkhatib Gil Durán

“today and next week we're discussing The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com (today is ch 5+6, next week is 7+8) as it happens, the timing is "good"; ch 6 discusses peter thiel's fear-mongering about future apocalypse and shit about AI annihilating humanity or what…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Ali Alkhatib: today and next week we're discussing The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com (today is ch 5+6, next week is 7+8) as it happens, the timing is "good"; ch 6 discusses peter thiel's fear-mongering about futur…
Gil Durán: today and next week we're discussing The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com (today is ch 5+6, next week is 7+8) as it happens, the timing is "good"; ch 6 discusses peter thiel's fear-mongering about futur…
Gil Durán: Ack! I’d join but I’m boarding a plane
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8 experts · 30 posts · 7d ago
Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Ali Alkhatib tante VE, cybersocial occult investigator Amy Hoy
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ali Alkhatib: can't think of any authors continuing to talk about stochastic parrots as much as its critics seem to do. they've all founded research institutes, written books, etc if you want people to pick up a…
Ali Alkhatib: its usefulness as a framework, like all conceptual frameworks, is mediated to some extent (maybe entirely determined!) by its usefulness to people. if it continues to be useful, then its not a bad …
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