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Hosted by Kate Willett and Emile Torres · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 69 episodes
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Dystopia Now is a show where a comedian (Kate Willett) and an academic (Emile Torres) explore the philosophies and religions of Silicon Valley and tech billionaires shaping our country, our world, and our future.
Kate Willett and Emile Torres hosts Dystopia Now, a society show with 69 episodes published.
This week we're joined by Vu, an undergraduate at Stanford University and representative of Stanford SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) to discuss the role of technology in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, stud
This week, Kate and Émile discuss AI 2040, a new document by some of the same authors behind AI 2027. The authors argue, if AI companies come to their senses and prioritize AI safety, the result could be a superintellige
Subscribe to our Patreon for more bonus content at patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow ! On this now-unlocked episode, we talked to antitrust hero and Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout about surveillance pricing and
We return from our brief summer break chatting about Émile's latest article of interest, "Here's Why SpaceX's Mission is Bullshit" in the wake of its recent IPO and question the assumptions underlying transhumanism for s
Does fiction inform what we think the future should look like? Sci-fi and futurism has typically told us the inevitability of technology and dystopian cyberpunk imaginaries. Monika Bielskyte joins us to introduce her alt
This week, we go over the merits and demerits of the Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas and its co-presentation with Christopher Olah of Anthropic, the company branding itself as most concerned with "AI
Could a populist, independent candidate win an election in the most Republican part of Nebraska's 1st Congressional District? In a time when the Republican and Democratic Party are both notoriously corrupt, Austin Ahlman
Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow ! Oliver Larkin, activist, union organizer, and Democratic Socialist, joins us this week to discuss his run for election to the U.S. House as a Florida representative
Subscribe to our Patreon for the FULL episode and more bonus content at patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow ! On this special Patreon episode, we talked to antitrust hero and Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout about
In this week's episode we begin to go into the philosophy around consciousness and AI as New Atheist relic Richard Dawkins recently claimed "Claudia" was conscious. What are the merits and issues of thinking about consci
In this week's episode, we explore a question no one has ever thought of before: "What is violence?" We unpack the recent Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman's home and how his own rhetoric about ( checks notes ), "kil
Subscribe to our Patreon for the FULL episode and more bonus content at patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow ! Quinn Slobodian, historian of neoliberalism, and Ben Tarnoff, internet and technology writer, join us to unpack how Musk
Prof. Emily M. Bender, linguist, and Dr. Alex Hanna, sociologist join us to discuss their 2025 book The AI Con and how Big Tech spun marketing around "stochastic parrots". Find lots more from Emily and Alex on their podc
Journalist Taylor Lorenz joins us to discuss Section 230, how Big Tech is already tracking everything from eye movements to finger presses, the ongoing erosion of online privacy through right-wing tech policy and identit
David Ramírez Álvarez, secretary at the embassy of Cuba in the US, joins us to understand the escalating blockade on Cuba.
Find Part 2 coming soon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow This week we dive into Emile's area of expertise, the ethics of human extinction and how these ethics are shaping Silicon Valley. Further Reading
Support the show at https://patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow Researcher and journalist Dylan Gyauch-Lewis joins us this week to discuss the views behind ongoing data center buildout for AI despite community resistance. Find Dyl
Find Jacob Silverman on Substack at https://substack.com/@ jacobsilverman or Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/ jacobsilverman.com Further Reading from Jacob * The Shady Financial Past of a Major Trump Crypto Investor: ht
This week, we discussed the biography of the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and his brand of tech doomerism. Further Reading Émile's article: https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/eliezer-yudkowsky-and-the-unabomber
While profit motivates all companies under capitalism, why are the wealthiest tech companies so focused on AGI? This week, we dive into the relationships, ideologies, and claims behind the four biggest players claiming t
Oliver Larkin
Ableton
1 appearance on this show
Ben Tarnoff
writer and technologist
1 appearance on this show
Quinn Slobodian
Professor of International History at Boston University · Boston University
1 appearance on this show
Alex Hanna
Director of Research · Distributed AI Research Institute
1 appearance on this show
Taylor Lorenz
Technology Columnist at The Washington Post · The Washington Post
1 appearance on this show
Adam Aleksic
the Etymology Nerd · unclear
1 appearance on this show
Eoin Higgins
journalist and author
2 appearances on this show
Josh Gondelman
comedian and writer
1 appearance on this show
Bryan Johnson
CEO and Co-Founder of WeInfuse, CEO of RxToolKit, CEO of InfuseTrack · Dane County or Madison Waste Management Department
1 appearance on this show
Malcolm Collins
1 appearance on this show
Simone Collins
Our Year in Bali
1 appearance on this show
Mark Zuckerberg
CEO of Meta · Meta Platforms Inc
1 appearance on this show
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