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... Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Kate Crawford.

We talked about her book,

Atlas of AI, Power Politics and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. We talked about

why some proponents of AI are so convinced against so much evidence that systems of machine

learning will truly be able to replicate human intelligence and how the extraordinary

material impacts of AI systems, from rare earth mining to electrical power needs, tend not to be

discussed. We also talked about the early history of statistical analysis and the new disciplines'

relationship to eugenics. And finally, we discussed how workplace surveillance systems,

in spite of their apparent novelty, are in some ways replicating the practices of managerial

control of the early factory system. Today's show is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon

and also by Verso Books, who have lots of excellent titles that may be of interest

to PTO listeners. One that you might like to check out is Revolution and Intellectual History

by Enzo Traverso. In the book, Traverso reinterprets the history of 19th and 20th century revolutions

by composing a constellation of dialectical images, such as Marx's locomotives

of history, Alexandra Colonti's sexually liberated bodies, Auguste Blanquy's barricades and red flags,

and Lenin's mummified body, among others. It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the

thinkers who elaborated them

by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals, from Marx and Bakunin to

Luxembourg and the Bolsheviks. And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution

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