Deus vs. Machina

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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:

• The Boring Internet (Terry Godier)
• Orkney Library & Archive (Bluesky)
• Silicon Valley takes its AI pitch to the pope (Politico)
• Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah's remarks on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" (Anthropic)
• Vance calls Pope Leo’s AI warnings ‘profound’ (NBC News)
• American heresy: should Peter Thiel be burned at the stake? (Le Grand Continent)
• Spotify chief defends AI-generated music (Financial Times)
• OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections (Axios)

And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:

• In a surprise, Meta increases funding to the Oversight Board (Platformer)
• Spotlight: Five Years of the Oversight Board, from Experiment to Essential Institution (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)

If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).