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A newsletter & podcast about AI and politics
The Maybe Collective Hi, all - There is too much. Too much news to sort through. Too many topics to track. Too much spin. Too many ways that technology is reshaping our lives. But there is also too little. Too little space to make sense of it all with other people. To ask questions. To meet someone working on the same problem. To find collaborators. To move beyond understanding what's happening and towards figuring out what to do next. We've been thinking about that gap for a while now. Over...
A note from Alix | Video Highlights | Highlights from the Collective Good ideas need company Hey everyone, After spending the last two months working on our Computer Says Kill series, it was hard not to feel the weight of power consolidation in tech. I needed a reminder that for every violent power structure, there are incredible people organising to tear it down. Enter REAL Resistance: a series of global conversations about tech power, accountability, and resistance. We collaborated with...
A note from Alix | Podcast Highlights | Highlights from the Collective The enemy of my enemy is…also my enemy? Hey everyone, Anthropic’s PR machine is working overtime to cast the company as AI’s “good guy.” Just yesterday, we saw Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah cozying up to Pope Leo, nodding along to the Pope’s shallow critiques of AI. The performance of humility stands in sharp contrast to how Anthropic is actually moving through the world. Last week, we put out an episode with Madeline...