Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss how tech CEOs are pushing a new generation of AI-powered smart glasses by promising they’ll be stylish and indispensable to workers in a desperate attempt to convince us we should want their luxury surveillance gadgets.
Chris Gilliard is the co-director of the <a href="https://www.criticalinternet.org">Critical Internet Studies Institute</a> and is working on a book called Luxury Surveillance.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/techwontsaveus">Patreon</a>.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.
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Harvard students used Meta glasses to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/10/03/metas-ray-ban-smart-glasses-used-to-instantly-dox-strangers-in-public-thanks-to-ai-and-facial-recognition/">dox strangers</a>.
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Apple <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-teaching-artificial-intelligence-adapt-to-trump-era/">tinkered with its AI</a> shortly after Trump was inaugurated.
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<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mcpd-plans-ai-answer-non-220739079.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAELeq_l7pjTHaCRZWiRLBbpIxXHmdsKHTo-UcVF5EjHoGJ9pbajb4zva482TvdYBseub_XNYFjm_Y-U7ZEoXFbYeAvhKUrvvi3azMJpZLHS7D9cUakxYZlhElp-cytByRzj4Qgvqk1aaQk43ij8RVMkRJl6G7gdzcFTJJUttg3Tz">AI may start answering 911 calls</a>.
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Studies are suggesting that <a href="https://time.com/7309274/ai-lancet-study-artificial-intelligence-colonoscopy-cancer-detection-medicine-deskilling/">AI may be making doctors worse at diagnosing cancer</a>.
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Rob Horning has written about <a href="https://robhorning.substack.com/p/overreliance-as-a-service">overreliance on AI</a>.
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Chris mentioned Emily Bender and her analogy <a href="https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/friends-dont-let-friends-prompt/">comparing LLMs to plastic</a>.
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