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Sep 2024
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#1655 A Pivotal Moment for Big Tech, Bot...

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Air Date 9/13/2024

We've been living through the modern equivalent of the oil boom, back when poking a hole in the ground would make one of the world's most valuable substances, upon which entire economies would be built. But in our case, it's not oil, it's data. Now we are at a pivotal moment as the old unchallenged master of data, Google, has been found guilty of illegal anti-competitive behavior at the same time as generative AI companies are in a new desperate rush to stake claims on every last piece of data they can find.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: The New Colonialism of Big Tech - Andrewism - Air Date 9-3-24

KP 2: Tech's Big Money Campaign is Getting Pushback with Margaret O'Mara and Brody Mullins - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 8-26-24

KP 3: Nathan Calvin on California AI bill SB 1047 and it's potential to shape US AI policy - 80,000 Hours Podcast - Air Date 8-29-24

KP 4: This Moment in AI How We Got Here and Where Were Going - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 8-12-24

KP 5: Newsoms AI dilemma To sign or not to sign - POLITICO Tech - Air Date 9-6-24

KP 6: At Last Big Tech's Free Ride May Be Over - The Hartmann Report - Air Date 9-4-24

KP 7: Where AI Isn't a Four Letter Word China Builds Robots to Aid Workers - The Socialist Program - Air Date 9-4-24

KP 8: Tech's Big Money Campaign is Getting Pushback with Margaret O'Mara and Brody Mullins Part 2 - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 8-26-24

(1:00:18) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On a possible future for humanity

DEEPER DIVES

(1:07:35) SECTION A: THE THREAT

(1:20:31) SECTION B: BIG TECH LOBBYING

(1:39:26) SECTION C: REGULATION

(1:56:17) SECTION D: THINKING THROUGH SOLUTIONS

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