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In this episode of No Way, Jose!, host Jose Galison reads through two sharp critiques of the AI boom—David Brady’s “Dario Amodei’s AI Cartel” from The American Conservative and the Americans for Financial Reform / Open Markets Institute report “Brace for Impact: Protecting People and the Economy When the AI Bubble Bursts” by Maya Jenkins and Matthew U. Scherer—while offering running commentary that refuses the tidy left/right binary the debate usually collapses into. Figures like Amodei and Thiel become the lens for examining a strange pivot: even as the pieces name real concentration of power, the “left” side of the argument often softens blame for the oligarchs currently driving the bubble, shifting focus toward regulation that consolidates the market further or toward emerging AI-rights talk that risks handing government the keys.
Galison traces how both sides end up attacking the same problem from angles that serve the same outcome—the left via regulatory capture and state control, the right via political lock-in, Ayn Rand-style hero worship, and aesthetic religious framing of the technologists. The result is less a partisan score-settling than a close look at how the impending AI economic fallout is being narrated in ways that protect the very interests most responsible. Tune in for the readings, the interruptions, and the through-line that treats the left/right script itself as part of the problem.
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