Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Nitasha Tiku on AI companies, user engagement, and social media.
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Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms | Tech Won’t Save Us
On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how AI companies are preying on users to drive engagement and how that’s repeating many of the problems we’re belatedly trying to address with social media companies at an accelerated pace.
Nitasha Tiku is a technology reporter at the Washington Post.
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Young people look at their phones in the City of London, the capital’s financial district, on 30th May 2025, in London, England.
(Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, I’m joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how AI companies are preying on users to drive engagement and how that’s repeating many of the problems we’re belatedly trying to address with social media companies at an accelerated pace.
Nitasha Tiku is a technology reporter at The Washington Post.
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Tech Refusal Has a Very Long History w/ Thomas Dekeyser / Tech Won’t Save Us
We are often told that resisting technological development is impossible and ‘progress’ is inevitable, but history says otherwise. Thomas Dekeyser joins Paris Marx to discuss how understanding radical resistances of the past can help us rethink our modern relationship with technology and reshape our vision of the future.
Thomas Dekeyser is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Southampton, author of Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine, and co-creator of the documentary Machines in Flames.
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