Computer Says Maybe Podcast Transcripts
Alix Dunn · 141 episodes with transcripts
Technology is changing fast. And it's changing our world even faster. Host Alix Dunn interviews visionaries, researchers, and technologists working in the public interest to help you keep up. Step outside the hype and explore the possibilities, problems, and politics of technology.
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Beware the AI Prophets: Hype, Doom, and Prediction as Tools of Control w/ Carissa Véliz
October 2, 2026
Alix Dunn (0:02)
Hey there, I'm Alix Dunn, and welcome back to Computer Says Maybe, where I talk to the people pushing back on tech power and fighting for something better.
It is officially October, which means the US midterms and other global elections are right around the corner. So this month, we are looking at politics and the role that AI is playing in these elections. Really through one question, who gets to shape the future? We are going to look at how powerful people use…
Carissa Véliz (1:50)
I'm Carissa Véliz. I'm an associate professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, and I'm the author of Privacy is Power, which is a book about the machinery of surveillance and prophecy, which is a book about how the machinery of surveillance feeds the machinery of prediction, and it's…
Alix Dunn (2:11)
Prediction is a command disguised as description.
I'm going to say that one more time for listeners, because I feel like it's such a dense but also interesting sentence. Prediction is a command disguised as a description. Can you explain a little bit what you mean by that?
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