Charlie Warzel: The Tech Overlords’ Anti-Humanity Is Catching Up to Them
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Sam Altman wants a supercomputer to talk to his kid so he doesn’t have to. Elon thinks Grok can make a better Odyssey than Christopher Nolan. And Silicon Valley has been cultishly hyping AI so much that they’ve lost the plot. Regular people are sick of all the synthetic slop, they don’t trust the tech titans, and their opposition to data centers is just the tip of the iceberg of a growing tech backlash. The political winds are shifting just in time for the midterms, so Elon's dumping more than $100 million to try to overcome them.
The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel joins Tim Miller.
show notes:
- TNL live at 9pm ET on Tuesday's primaries on YouTube or Substack
- Lauren on data centers in Democratic campaigns
- Charlie's "The Myth of SpaceX"
- Politico on the growing backlash against the AI buildout
- Jasmine Sun on how LLMs don't write well
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