Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. Today we examine the AI

industry's economic house of cards, the ideology Silicon Valley uses to sell a broken product,

and the very real human cost being paid by workers, the lonely, and communities bulldozed for

data centers nobody asked for. For those looking for a quick overview, the lonely, and communities bulldozed for data centers nobody asked for.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes

today include House of L, Better Offline, Alice Capelle, Mo Bittar, a TEDx talk, and Democracy Now.

Then, in the additional deeper dives hack of the show, there will be more in four sections.

Section A, the bubble economics, section B, ideology of the tech elite.

Section 3, the human cost, and section D, resistance, and how to fight back.

And now, on to the show.

NVIDIA CEO. On to the show. NVDA CEO Jensen Huang delivered a commencement speech at Carnegie Mellon University.

He told graduates, your career starts at the beginning of the AI revolution.

I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work. He told them

AI would change every industry. He told them to run, not walk towards it. Same sermon, different

congregation. One was preaching to the choir, the other was preaching to the people the choir

replaced. No booze, not a single one reported. The message was functionally identical to what

Eric Schmidt said at Arizona, where he was booed into the ground. And the difference is that

Carnegie Mellon is a widely recognized school as the birthplace of artificial intelligence. Its

graduates largely understood the technology, were entering careers built on it, and had a

relationship with AI that was informed rather than fearful. So same message, different audience,

opposite reaction. The variable isn't the message, it is the context in which the message lands.

And this is where I want to be extremely careful in this video because I am about to say something

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