David Gerard

A lot of businesses I think are going to go broke when their software just stops working and they literally cannot maintain it anymore because it's literally incomprehensible pile of vibe code.

Hi, I'm Isaac, and today on The Tech Report, I'm joined by author and host of Pivot to AI, David Gerard.

Always great to have you on.

Good afternoon.

[instrumental music] Hello, and welcome to episode 118 of the Machine Ethics Podcast.

This time I'm chatting with David Gerard.

This episode was recorded on the 14th of August, 2026.

David and I chat about crypto bros, bubble economics and recessions, AI pricing, who is making all the money, spoiler, Nvidia, surveillance use cases of AI, and indeed use cases for empty data centers, the RAM hardware apocalypse or racket, AI as a platform for life, the cult of AI, effective altruism, AI doomers, and anthropomorphizing.

If you could tell people who you are, uh, what do you do?

Hello.

I'm David Gerard.

I'm a journalist.

That was a, you know.

Well, I think you make a really good point about Wikipedia's general desire to make left-leaning ideologies accurate, and that very different type, there's that very different type of Wikipedia vandalism that does take place in a systematic attempt to make left-leaning narratives the source of truth, which we covered in a separate podcast where we talked about Tracy Woodgrain's coverage of David Gerard and his basically manipulation of reliable sources on Wikipedia.

Which is to say, sources that you are allowed to cite as an editor on Wikipedia, to disallow many sources that he coded as being too right-leaning, and to allow sources that may have been incredibly skewed and left-leaning, but that he knew would share the narratives that he wanted.

So-

Yeah

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this is, we're talking now about a totally different type of Wikipedia vandalism, but it was already known that David Gerard and other people like him have been skewing the information that gets shared on Wikipedia by limiting the sources people are allowed to cite to much more progressive media sources.

So that's also...

Who are, who are one and two?

It's gotten quite the... [chuckles] Oh, David Gerard is listed as number one.

Okay.

Um, he's...

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