Later this month, #TechWontSaveUs turns five years old. It’s hard to believe I’ve been making the show for this long!

Over that time I’ve interviewed hundreds of guests to spread critical perspectives on tech far and wide — and I know it’s had an impact.

Silicon Valley likes to present itself as clean and sustainable, but cloud giants have a very dirty relationship with oil and gas.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with JS Tan to discuss how cloud and AI are used to fuel the climate crisis, based on his experiences at Microsoft.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/270_the_dirty_alliance_between_tech_and_the_oil_industry_w_js_tan

In which the UK’s Starmer government meets AI fever and the Trump administration, and reveals itself to be

“deeply institutionally pathetic”

Spot on analyses of the hollow promises of tech and its capital sclerosis from James Meadway, interviewed by @parismarx for #TechWontSaveUs

https://overcast.fm/+8dw80uLBk

https://techwontsave.us/episode/266_the_uks_misguided_embrace_of_ai_hype_w_james_meadway

Elon Musk’s DOGE is gutting the US Digital Service and its citizen-focused approach to tech development is going with it.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I was honored to speak with Kate Green and Milo from We The Builders to discuss understand how government can build technology differently and what’s wrong with how DOGE thinks of efficiency.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/269_doge_is_gutting_the_us_digital_service_w_kate_green_and_milo

Elon Musk’s DOGE is wreaking havoc in the US, but tech leaders in Canada want their own DOGE to do much the same.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @jenstden to discuss the effort to bring the conservative-tech alliance north.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/268_canadas_tech_leaders_want_their_own_doge_w_jen_st_denis

Bei mir "reifen" Podcast-Folgen manchmal monatelang in der Queue. Heute war endlich Folge 249 " The Corruption of Open Source" vom "Tech Won't Save Us"-Podcast die Begleitung beim Wäsche machen. Gast ist, der wie immer großartige, @tante

Definitiv anhören, wenn noch nicht passiert: https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/249_the_corruption_of_open_source_w_tante

Great episode of #TechWontSaveUs with @timnitGebru

It's a real pleasure to listen to such a rich conversation on such diverse topics.

I especially liked how the topic of how the #AI industry labels people and methods was addressed.

It's the same for me, I've ended up assuming I'm a #DataScientist when I'm actually a #mechanical #engineer with a #PhD in #statistics. But the industry has decided that what I am is something I haven't studied about.

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/267_ai_hype_enters_its_geopolitics_era_w_timnit_gebru

Generative AI isn’t delivering on its promises, but that hasn’t stopped governments from turning it into a geopolitical football.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @timnitGebru to discuss the state of AI in 2025 and how it continues to sustain the hype.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/267_ai_hype_enters_its_geopolitics_era_w_timnit_gebru

Love love @timnitGebru’s energy in this episode, no BS, just straight talk about what’s going on with the AI hype.

https://techwontsave.us/episode/267_ai_hype_enters_its_geopolitics_era_w_timnit_gebru

The tech industry wants us to think generative AI is mostly upsides, but there are a bunch of harms they don’t want us to talk about.

Up next in the premium interviews from the #TechWontSaveUs DATA VAMPIRES series is @alex!

Become a Patreon supporter to listen: https://www.patreon.com/posts/harms-of-ai-w-122478911

Listening to a 2021 Tech Won't Save Us interview with labour reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh, about Teamsters unionising scAmazon workers;

https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/episodes/9242812-the-amazon-union-drive-comes-to-canada-w-sara-mojtehedzadeh.mp3

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The UK is embracing AI at any cost as it’s desperate to increase economic growth. But is that a good strategy?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with James Meadway to discuss what’s happening in the UK and the consequences of allowing US tech to dominate.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/266_the_uks_misguided_embrace_of_ai_hype_w_james_meadway

Elon Musk looks invincible, but a lot of his power and wealth is tied up in Tesla.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @niedermeyer about why Tesla is more vulnerable than it might appear and how hurting it can cause problems for Musk.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/265_protesting_tesla_can_hurt_elon_musk_w_ed_niedermeyer

Over the past few weeks, Elon Musk’s DOGE has infiltrated the US government and begun dismantling pieces of it.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @makenakellyx about the threat DOGE poses to government services and everyone who depends on them.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/264_how_doge_is_remaking_the_us_government_w_makena_kelly

Sam Altman imagines a grand AI-powered future for humanity, but isn’t too concerned with what it might actually mean for average people.

Up next in the premium interviews from DATA VAMPIRES on #TechWontSaveUs is Julia Black!

Become a Patreon supporter to listen: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sam-altmans-self-121900591

Got to love the way US liberals stumble on things that are now obvious, and treat them as amazing new discoveries. The wailing and gnashing of teeth about "cyberlibertarianism";

https://techwontsave.us/episode/261_the_problem_with_cyberlibertarianism_w_chris_gilliard

... mostly seems to consist of stuff that people in the software freedom movements, and others, have been talking about since the last century.

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Tech billionaires want the media to praise them, and they’ve been working for years to change shift its incentives.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Eoin Higgins to discuss how they made it profitable for influential voices to move to the right.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/263_the_tech_oligarchys_campaign_against_the_media_w_eoin_higgins