About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Hagen Blix about their new book on AI and its implications on labor, power, knowledge, and eugenics.

This week we’re joined by Hagen to talk about their new book on AI and labor/power/knowledge/eugenics. We also discuss some library Reddit developments. Media mentioned https://juandavidcampolargo.substack.com/p/naperville-library-spy https://www.juandavidcampolargo.com/projects/naperlibspy https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-fear-ai Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/gesekv6i Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT

People in this episode

Host: librarypunk

Guest: Hagen Blix

Topics covered

• AI
• labor
• power
• knowledge
• eugenics
• library developments

Keywords

• AI
• labor
• eugenics
• knowledge
• power
• library
• Reddit

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Naperville Library, Common Notions, Discord

Books & works: Why We Fear AI

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