AI, Empire, and the Left's Missing Voice w/ Nick Srnicek
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The episode discusses the impact of AI on Big Tech's power and the dependency of AI startups on established infrastructure.
I spoke to Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism, co-author of Inventing the Future, and most recently Silicon Empires, about why AI is consolidating Big Tech's power rather than disrupting it. We dig into why the AI upstarts remain dependent on the infrastructure of the incumbents, why the gap between open and closed models may widen as frontier training costs spiral upward, and the real biosecurity risks buried under Silicon Valley's safety discourse. Nick also breaks down what ...
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