News Summary

• Leading critics of the artificial intelligence industry gathered in New York Monday for the People’s AI Assembly.
• Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, co-authors of the book End Times Fascism, join us for a wide-ranging conversation.
• Klein: “After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself” Taylor: The “circular” debt financing of much of the AI economy is “a waste of resources that also endangers the public”