Machine Politics

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    • Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
    • By: Terry Golway
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • A major, surprising new history of New York's most famous political machine - Tammany Hall - revealing, beyond the vice and corruption, a birthplace of progressive urban politics....

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    • How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
    • By: David Pakman
    • Narrated by: David Pakman
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 03-25-25
    • Language: English
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    • Popular radio and podcast host David Pakman examines how right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics—and what we can do about it to save our democracy.

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    • Inside the Hit Factory
    • By: John Seabrook
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 832 ratings
    • Traveling from New York to Los Angeles, Stockholm to Korea, John Seabrook visits specialized teams composing songs in digital labs with novel techniques....

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    • Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
    • By: Tom Burgis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage....

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    • The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
    • By: Max Fisher
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 520 ratings
    • A gripping narrative that fuses research, exclusive interviews, and on-the-ground reporting to capture the full inside story of Big Tech’s monomaniacal race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
    • By: Paul Scharre
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 533 ratings
    • Paul Scharre, a Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger, explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death....

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    • Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse
    • By: Sidney Powell, Harvey A. Silverglate, Adriana Hunter - translator
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Powell and Silverglate shine a light on the defects of the system: overzealous prosecutors, perjury traps, negligent judges, perverse limits on self-defense, vague and overabundant criminal statutes, insufficient requirements for criminal intent, and no accountability for prosecutors....

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    • A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map....

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    • When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 539 ratings
    • Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil.

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    • Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Kate Crawford
    • Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • The hidden costs of artificial intelligence - from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom....

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    • Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
    • By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar - contributor
    • Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 765 ratings
    • We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services.

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    • 5 Battlegrounds
    • By: Rajiv Malhotra
    • Narrated by: Rajat Verman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power argues that the AI-driven revolution will have an unequal impact on different segments of humanity. There will be new winners and losers, new haves and have-nots, resulting in an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power....

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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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    • Living and Working with AI
    • By: Ethan Mollick
    • Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 387 ratings
    • From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI....

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    • How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Tobias Rose-Stockwell
    • Narrated by: Justin Price, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Bolton Marsh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • An invaluable guide to understanding the underlying machinery and technology that grabs our attention—and keeps us coming back by filling us with rage....

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    • By: Nils J. Nilsson
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future....

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    • How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
    • By: Geoff Mulgan
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale....

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    • A Guide for Thinking Humans
    • By: Melanie Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell, Tony Wolf
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • Interweaving stories about the science and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and approachable accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in AI, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations....

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    • Paths, Dangers, Strategies
    • By: Nick Bostrom
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,323 ratings
    • Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life....

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