Antonio Casilli
Professor and sociologist
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AI on the ballot? Voters in US midterms revolt against data centres
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Antonio CasilliGUEST
Basically, I'm trying to say this has been so far mainly a northern hemisphere thing.
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François PicardHOST
Are they mad? Are the tech titans better at winning people over than the US president?
Where is the kill switch? AI doomsday warnings trigger calls to regulate
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Marion CarréGUEST
And so the issue is that the quicker you want to go, the more human mistake you do, and then you say, oh, it's not a human, it's the AI that is too powerful.

Antonio CasilliGUEST
And yes, if I can add something, I think that there is a contradiction here and even a paradox as Marion was already implying.

Antonio CasilliGUEST
Sometimes these big tech guys and gurus are saying that AI is so powerful that we cannot stop it.

Antonio CasilliGUEST
Nevertheless, they insist on the fact that we can stop it and actually we do stop it every day.

Antonio CasilliGUEST
For instance, In my activity, what I do is I've been traveling in more than 30 countries, interviewing thousands of people whose work is to actually sometimes verify that AI is doing what it is supposed to do.
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François PicardHOST
is, Antonio Cazili, the fact that it's not the Trump administration that's going to regulate you.
Democracy Now! Thursday, August 27, 2026
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Antonio CasilliGUEST
This is something that, which is, uh, appalling, which is unfortunately very common.

Antonio CasilliGUEST
First of all, let's focus on the, the estimates that the, um, the, uh, World Bank has been producing for a number of years because they started, uh, you know, conducting this kind of service and trying to estimate the number of people who perform online gig work.

Antonio CasilliGUEST
We're not talking about gig workers, uh, like, I don't know, Uber drivers or, uh, uh, delivery, uh, persons, you know, delivery workers.
7 MINS LATER
Nermeen ShaikhHOST
And then we wanna get also to the way in which these organizers against, uh, these, uh, workers against impossible conditions are in fact trying to organize against their working conditions.
Democracy Now! 2026-08-27 Thursday
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35:15
42:15

Antonio CasilliGUEST
This is something that which is, uh, appalling, which is unfortunately very common.

Antonio CasilliGUEST
First of all, let's focus on the, the estimates that the, um, the, uh, World Bank has been producing for a number of years because they started, uh, you know, conducting this kind of service and trying to estimate the number of people who perform online gig work.

Antonio CasilliGUEST
We're not talking about gig workers, uh, like, I don't know, Uber drivers or, uh, uh, delivery, uh, persons, you know, delivery workers.
7 MINS LATER
Nermeen ShaikhHOST
And then we want to get also to the way in which these organizers against, uh, these, uh, workers against impossible conditions are in fact trying to organize against their working conditions.
Democracy Now! 2026-08-27 Thursday
34:54
35:00
35:15
42:15

Antonio CasilliGUEST
This is something that, which is, uh, appalling, which is, uh, unfortunately very common.

Antonio CasilliGUEST
First of all, let's focus on, uh, the estimates that the, um, the, uh, World Bank has been producing for a number of years, because they started, uh, you know, conducting this kind of service and trying to estimate the number of people who perform online gig work.

Antonio CasilliGUEST
We're not talking about gig workers, uh, like, I don't know, Uber drivers or, uh, uh, delivery, uh, persons, you know, delivery workers.
7 MINS LATER
Nermeen ShaikhHOST
And then we wanna get also to the way in which these organizers against, uh, these, uh, workers against impossible conditions are in fact trying to organize against their working conditions.