This Machine Kills Podcast: OpenAI-HF Incident Shows AI Framed as a Mystified God-in-a-Box
jathansadowski · x · 2026-09-27
Episode 475 of This Machine Kills (84 min) uses the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident to critique the misleading, cynical, and hysterical ways AI is discussed. Core argument: rather than treating machine learning as an explainable, contextualizable technology, AI is proffered as an emergent god with mystified intentions — equally horrifying and awe-inspiring — and existential risk framings hold a stranglehold on discourse. The episode draws on Cory Doctorow's 'LLMs are real, AI is fake' and Dario Amodei's 'We Must Pace the Frontier.'
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