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Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ – podcast

Business | The Guardian · 3h ago · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ – podcast

With less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war – and datacentres. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the historian Jill Lepore about how this latest AI backlash could influence those all-important elections in November. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the ‘artificial state’? Listen to the Today In Focus episode on the plans for a new datacentre in London’s Brick Lane Read Jill Lepore’s Long Read here Watch Jonathan Freedland on our new Politics Weekly YouTube channel Send your questions and feedback to politicsweeklya

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