Computer Says Maybe
Hosted by Kushal Dev and Marion Wellington and Van Newman and Zoe Trout and Sarah Myles and Alix and Alix Dunn and Georgia Iacovou · Alix Dunn
5.0from 55 ratings
- 145
- Episodes
- 123
- Transcribed
- 55
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Computer Says Maybe
Technology is changing fast. And it's changing our world even faster. Host Alix Dunn interviews visionaries, researchers, and technologists working in the public interest to help you keep up. Step outside the hype and explore the possibilities, problems, and politics of technology. Learn more at www.themaybe.org/podcast.
- Publisher
- Alix Dunn
- Category
- society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 23 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
123 of 145 episodes have a transcript.
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Follow the AI Money: Big Tech’s Midterm Spending Spree w/ Steven Renderos
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Flock Shock: How Local Fights Over Surveillance Are Reshaping American Politics w/ Sarah Hamid & Anthony Ralphs
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Climate Cost of AI Prophecies: How Data Centers Fuel Big Fossil w/ Ketan Joshi
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Follow the AI Money: Big Tech’s Midterm Spending Spree w/ Steven Renderos
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Some of them are giving to Republicans. Some of them are funding. towards specific policies or advocating for specific policies. Some of them are not advocating for anything related to tech. They're just funneling money for political ads towards their preferred candidates. And it's a mishmash of things, but the thing you got to know is like, ultimately it tracks back to the AI industry spending a ton of money in this election, the crypto industry spending a ton of money and they're doing it in ways that are hidden. And one of the things we, one example of this that we talk about in the political education series is is about $10 million that goes from one of these leading the future PACs towards these two kind of shell companies that were both founded on the same exact day within the last year with a Nevada mailing address. […]
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- Steven Renderos
- Anthony Ralphs
- Sarah Hamid
- Ketan Joshi
- Carissa Véliz
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 19 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 36 ratings
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- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 71
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Who hosts Computer Says Maybe?
Kushal Dev and Marion Wellington and Van Newman and Zoe Trout and Sarah Myles and Alix and Alix Dunn and Georgia Iacovou host the show. Published by Alix Dunn.
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