AI won’t make you stronger, but it might kill you. In Part 2, we discuss how AI is constructing a high-tech infrastructure of control, where every movement and transaction becomes data to be monitored, commodified, and weaponized. We examine the growing fusion between AI companies and militarized state power, using Palantir’s recent manifesto as a case study to show how tech companies are advancing the chatbot-to-kill pipeline.

We also delve into the deeply anti-human ideologies driving many of the most powerful figures, like Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, in Silicon Valley’s bizarre death cult. Within the TESCREAL movement, which includes transhumanism and singularitarianism, humanity is merely an inefficient stepping stone toward superior machine intelligence.

We explore the psychological and social consequences of AI companionship and chatbot culture, including what researchers and critics have begun calling “AI psychosis.” We look at a growing number of reported cases involving manipulation, emotional dependency, overdoses, and suicide linked to the AI killbot.

The core issue is not the technology itself, but its ownership. Who should control technology? Capitalist rulers and the state? Or the workers whose collective labor built society?

Finally, we share a movie review of Amazon’s Mercy, a corporate surveillance fantasy disguised as a sci-fi thriller and stitched together from tech CEO talking points.

Is artificial intelligence an inevitable leap toward superintelligence, or just a high-speed statistical guessing game backed by billions in venture capital? In Part 1, we peel back the marketing blitz to reveal how these hyped-up "God Machines" are merely software built on data theft and corporate speculation.

We deconstruct the "booster" vs. "doomer" trap, arguing that they’re two sides of the same coin, each serving the myth that AI is an all-powerful force capable of either saving or destroying civilization. We look at what’s behind the AI bubble, and how the flood of investment money into the industry has inflated the U.S. stock market and artificially bolstered the economy for a tool that’s neither inherently valuable nor profitable. When the bubble bursts, the pain will be felt by the working class and the oppressed, who are footing the bill. We also pull back the curtain on the massive AI data centers destroying local communities, guzzling fresh water, and threatening power grids to keep this subsidized tech fantasy running.

The billionaire tech overlords use AI hype to gaslight us, to fuel anxiety about layoffs, to justify surveillance, and to popularize their sociopathic goals for human obsolescence. The growing opposition to AI asks why this technology is being forced upon us, and what's the true cost to our labor, our creativity, the environment, and the future?

Shoutout to Ed Zitron for giving us tons of fuel and inspiration for this episode! Special thanks to Emily Bender and Alex Hanna for their research in The AI Con. Come on our show!

Why has flying become so crappy? Modern air travel has morphed into a high-altitude endurance test, cramming us into shrinking seats and nickel-and-diming us for every basic necessity. In this episode, we trace the airline industry’s descent from a regulated public utility to a monopoly-driven, irrational oligarchy in the wake of the 1978 Deregulation Act.

We look at the war against airline and airport workers, starting with the smashing of the 1981 PATCO air traffic controllers' strike. We discuss exhausted air traffic controllers and pilots struggling under massive debt, grueling work hours, and poverty wages.

By examining several crashes and close calls, we look at how profit undermines safety, and how the outsourcing and cost-cutting of maintenance is a danger to the whole flying public. We examine how government agencies like the FAA gave a free pass to airline manufacturers like Boeing in pushing through shoddy engineering, like with the 737 Max.

For the airline industry, the “magic of the market” means that profits are privatized but losses are socialized, leading to one government bailout after another. The answer to the airline cartel’s war on its workers is industrialized unions and workers' control of safety.