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Black People Were The Machines. My AfroTech Keynote
My words on power, liberation, and a multi-player future
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
33:10
Seeing Is No Longer Believing
ICE, deepfakes, and how to know what's real with Sam Gregory
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
44:02
Taking Back Your Digital Agency
A conversation with Shae Omonijo on local AI, critical thinking, and the great de-skilling
 • Life With Machines, Shae O., and Baratunde Thurston
54:17
I Want to Define The Circle
A poem inviting us to imagine intelligence beyond the artificial
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
3:38
Meta Patented Your Ghost
Death is just another engagement problem to solve
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
The Good Future
I want to live in a world where…
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
2:35
Defunding Fascism with Cut Off the Spigot
the power of the collective boycott
 • Life With Machines, Cut Off the Spigot, and Baratunde Thurston
45:11
We're Here to Live Life, Not Optimize It
My conversation with Dr. Sam Illingworth about how AI could bring us back to each other
 • Life With Machines, Dr Sam Illingworth, and Baratunde Thurston
42:08
Breaking Up With ChatGPT Was Just the Beginning
A real-time update from 5-weeks of trying to defund fascism
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
AI and cognitive liberty with Nita Farahany
we've lost our freely thinking minds
 • Baratunde Thurston, Nita Farahany, and Life With Machines
47:17
You're Paying for Your Own Surveillance. Stop.
How data brokers turned your apps into informants
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
The Pope Has Entered the Chat
Comparing Notes with Jacob Ward on the Pope, Anthropic, and data centers
 • Life With Machines, Jacob Ward, and Baratunde Thurston
44:13
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