
Matteo McDermant
Matteo Rossi MacDermant is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico researching tech labor and technoprogressive futures, and producer of the Bread and Robots podcast.
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Oct 3, 2026
Technoprogressives and Rogue AI
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Matteo McDermantGUEST
Well, yeah, I think one of the main beliefs that I had, which is maybe in line with the accelerationist argument that I was more sympathetic to, is that, you know, pause, control AI, not even not just the organizations, but the concept.

Matteo McDermantGUEST
There's also other organizations that we could talk about in a minute that are maybe even more aligned with our politics, but, you know, that that demand to stop the development of super intelligence and to effectively, you know, push the singularity out toward the 2040s or whenever.

Matteo McDermantGUEST
According to Paws.ai's proposal, we need to just pause indefinitely until we can assure that it's safe.
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James HughesHOST
like in ohio ai data centers are toxic um and uh one of the reasons sharon brown may win his race is because his opponent is heavily invested in ai data centers so embrace full embrace of ai in this moment when the majority of americans are scared pissless about it uh is not probably going to be good for the republicans in november