I'm Sarah Lee here with my colleague Mike Watson, and this is the Influence Watch podcast.

A defining feature of the creeping leftism the country has experienced over the last several years is just that.

It's creeping, coming in on padded feet behind the scenes until Americans began to see it

everywhere in boardrooms, schoolrooms, and entertainment options. Now there's a real concern that

emerging technology like AI is embracing the ideology of woke on the sly, bringing it into

the very information people seek online. Fortunately, there are organizations monitoring these things on behalf of consumers, such as

Consumers Research via their woke alerts, which very recently sounded the alarm about a partnership

between Anthropic AI and Salesforce that they say could make it easier to push left-wing

ideologies on technology consumers. Here to discuss is

Will Hild, Executive Director of Consumers Research. Hey, Will. Hey, how's it going? It's great to be with you

today. Yeah, thanks for joining us. So let's start just by giving us an overview of what

consumers research is, what you do there, and what your

woke alerts are, when you started those and what they're intended to do.

Certainly.

So consumers research is actually the nation's oldest consumer protection organization.

We were founded in 1929, and we have over 90-year pedigree of educating consumers on issues

important to them, and more importantly, amplifying their voice in the marketplace, which

seems to be something that is needed more and more these days with corporate America turning

its focus to far-left-wing politics rather than making sure that the goods and services they

produce are the best they can be.

Okay, great. In terms of the... rather than making sure that the goods and services they produce are the best they can be.

Okay, great.

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