Behind the News: Tech, AI, and Luddism w/ Edward Ongweso Jr
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🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Kathryn Joyce discusses the far right and its internal battles. Doug then interviews Edward Ongweso Jr about tech, AI, and Luddism.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html
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| 0:34.0 | I'm speaking with the journalist Catherine Joyce. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm speaking with Edward Ungueso Jr., the tech correspondent for vice's mother board. |
| 0:43.0 | A tech correspondent for vice's mother board. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Hinwood. |
| 0:49.0 | The usual duo today for us, Catherine Joyce, will update us on what's been happening on the far right. |
| 0:54.0 | And then Edward Ungueso Jr., we'll talk about Silicon Valley and the latest AI miracle chat GPT. |
| 1:00.0 | Thanks to LinkedIn, I learned that both are graduates of Hampshire College, |
| 1:04.0 | something I don't think has ever happened before on Behind the News. |
| 1:07.0 | Over the last year or so, we've seen a lot of fragmentation on both the left and the right. |
| 1:11.0 | I'll leave the left fragmentation for another time, but on the right, |
| 1:14.0 | we've seen the national conservatives and the Catholic intergrillists and the wayward Marxists all splitting |
| 1:19.0 | and infighting like a gaggle of schisming trotskies. |
| 1:22.0 | Who are all these people? What are they fighting about? |
| 1:25.0 | Why is frank and violent anti-semitism gotten so prominent? |
| 1:28.0 | What's up with the compact gang? |
| 1:30.0 | Here to answer those and many other questions is Catherine Joyce. |
| 1:33.0 | She's an investigative journalist who writes regularly for salon and is also a contributing editor at the New Republic. |
| 1:39.0 | Catherine Joyce. |
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