SIliconsciousness: Why Do People Hate So Many of AI’s Moguls?

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The explosion of artificial intelligence has been a huge boon for leaders in the tech space. But many of us outside of Silicon Valley aren’t fans. So where does this hate for AI moguls come from. MIT Technology Review editor in chief Mat Honan joins David Rothkopf to discuss his recent coverage of Davos, reasons to be optimistic and skeptical about developing trends in AI, and what comes next. This material is distributed by TRG Advisory Services, LLC on behalf of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S.. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.1	Welcome to CILA consciousness, the DSR network podcast focusing on the artificial intelligence revolution, politics and policy.
1:34.4	Hello and welcome to SILA consciousness.
1:39.6	I'm David Rothkoff, your host, and we are joined by a friend of ours, a smart guy we would like to talk to regularly, Matt Honan, who is the editor of the MIT Technology Review. How are you in
1:47.0	that? Great. How are you, David? Well, you're smart enough not to be actually in Boston at the
1:52.7	moment. It's true. I've got to tell you, like, I'm hearing about them having these, I think,
2:00.2	I think someone told me it was 13 degrees today, and yesterday I went to the beach.
2:07.1	Oh, okay. That was entirely unnecessary.
2:13.2	My wife teaches at the other university in Cambridge, and she was there in the past couple days
2:19.6	and has to go back to the next couple, and she is not happy about it.
2:23.5	Because she said the snow was also up to her shoulders, the snow banks on the side of the street.
2:29.4	Well, you are in California.
2:31.2	That's a sign of wisdom in many respects.
2:34.1	But before your good luck with
2:37.9	weather was traveling with you, because you went to Davos last mud. And one of your reports said
2:43.7	that it was comparatively warm. It was a lot. It was, it was, it was maybe a little bit troubling even.
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