The Human Side of the AI Underclass w/ Joanne McNeil
Nov 30, 2023•57 min•Ep. 196
Episode description
Paris Marx is joined by Joanne McNeil to discuss her new novel dealing with the human labor behind self-driving cars and the challenges of being a good tech critic.
Joanne McNeil is the author of Wrong Way and has written for Dissent Magazine, New York Magazine, and The Nation.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Joanne has written about the need for tech critics that aren’t insiders and tech media warming back up to Facebook.
- Paris wrote about the recent scandal around GM’s Cruise division.
- In 2014, Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and gave a speech that skewered capitalism.
- Joanne’s fictional tech founder was in part inspired by Holacracy and Dan Price.
- The fantasy of self-driving cars is highly reliant on remote drivers.