Podcast / Tech Won’t Save Us / Jul 18, 2024

Generative AI Is a Climate Disaster

On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Sasha Luccioni on the climate impacts of AI.

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An Antifascist Guide to the World Cup w/ Alex Shephard / Fighting Fascism
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We swear to god, we haven’t turned into a sports podcast (despite all Matt’s efforts). But it turns out there’s a not-insignificant intersection between the World Cup, democracy, and authoritarianism. So we invited Alex Shephard—a senior editor and writer at the New Republic and founder of Golden Goal, a literary magazine about the 2026 World Cup—to walk us through the dramas, controversies, and political implications of the global tournament that’s kicking off this week. Whether you’re obsessed with sports, like Matt, or have barely heard of them, like Aaron, there’s something in this conversation for you.

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Artificial intelligence.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Sasha Luccioni to discuss the catastrophic environmental costs of the generative AI being increasingly shoved into every tech product we touch. Sasha Luccioni is an artificial intelligence researcher and climate lead at Hugging Face.

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The SpaceX IPO Gives Elon Musk Even More Power w/ Sean O’Kane / Tech Won’t Save Us
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SpaceX is finally going public, and it’s bad news for anyone who wants to rein in Elon Musk. Sean O’Kane joins Paris Marx to discuss the flimsy sci-fi ideas Elon Musk is using to justify the company’s massive valuation and the way corporate governance rules are shifting to give him even more power.

Sean O’Kane is a senior reporter at TechCrunch.

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