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Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.
Plus: Fiery resistance to a nuclear AI data center and A24's Google debacle. Welcome to the first episode of BLOOD IN THE MACHINE: THE SHOW, with the great AI and crypto watchdog, Molly White.
Inside the effort to de-democratize AI
The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it.