Podcast / Tech Won’t Save Us / May 14, 2026

The UK Government’s AI Obsession Is a Big Risk—With Will Dunn

What happens when a government goes all in on AI? It creates some huge vulnerabilities.

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The UK Government’s AI Obsession Is a Big Risk w/ Will Dunn / Tech Won’t Save Us
byThe Nation Magazine

What happens when a government goes all in on AI? It creates some huge vulnerabilities. Will Dunn joins Paris Marx to dig into how the UK government is using chatbots to write laws without public consultation and why it isn’t asking the hard questions about the risks of that growing reliance on US technology.

Will Dunn is the business editor at the New Statesman.

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

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What happens when a government goes all in on AI? It creates some huge vulnerabilities. Will Dunn joins Paris Marx to dig into how the UK government is using chatbots to write laws without public consultation and why it isn’t asking the hard questions about the risks of that growing reliance on US technology.

Will Dunn is the business editor at the New Statesman.

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Taking Data Centers to Court w/ Martha Dark / Tech Won’t Save Us
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Data centers are being approved without proper oversight into their broader impacts, but there are organizations pushing back. Martha Dark joins Paris Marx to discuss her work at Foxglove and how legal challenges against data centers are imposing stronger rules and reframing false narratives from policymakers and Big Tech.

Martha Dark is co-executive director of Foxglove.

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Paris Marx is the author of Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires. He hosts the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast and writes the Disconnect newsletter.

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