Keen On America
In KEEN ON AMERICA, Andrew talks about the subject on all of our minds right now: the state of the United States of America
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Artificial Intimacy (opens the original)
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“The original sin of generative AI is having chatbots speak in the first person.” — Sherry TurkleFifteen years ago, at the height of the social media boom, the MIT technology scholar Sherry Turkle came on the show to warn that we were now “alone together.” She was, of course, chillingly prescient. A decade and a half later, she warns in her new book <a href="https://www.hachetteb
London Station (opens the original)
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“What if we fell out with the Brits? What if the agency and the Brits started spying on each other again?” — David McCloskeyWhat if the Americans and the British started spying on each other again? That’s the premise of London Station, David McCloskey’s fifth novel, out today. It isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds. Before the Second World War those perfidious Brits did spy on America, breaking American ciphers and running influence campaigns in New York to drag the United States into the war.<a h
The Age of Cures (opens the original)
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“Kennedy and Trump are taking a wrecking ball to probably the most important thing we have done consistently better than the rest of the world over the last eighty years, and I don’t get it.” — Barry WerthLast week on the show, the San Francisco based AI mogul and Eureka Machine author Richard Socher promised a scientific renaissance in which AI will cure everything. Socher’s eureka moment, however, may have already occurred. Not with AI, but with big pharma. At least according to <a href="https
A Short, Miserable and Violent Week (opens the original)
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A Fabulous Debt (opens the original)
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“Is this a disaster waiting to happen? No. Not yet. But the trend lines are now definitely pointing in a suboptimal direction.” — Robin Wigglesworth on a potential bond bustAmidst all the talk of an AI bubble, bonds are back in the news. The world’s two leading business newspapers, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, both feature stories this weekend warning about bond ructions and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/finance/i
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