Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2025-07-23

Books mentioned on Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron

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Ed Zitron is the owner of EZPR, host of Better Offline, and author of the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. Zitron joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the generative-AI boom is an unsustainable bubble ready to pop.

Ed Zitron discussed Empire of AI by Karen Hao.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Empire of AI

   Karen Hao · at 1:30:32

   Empire of AI by Karen Hao is a work of investigative journalism detailing the operations, material realities, and human costs behind the artificial intelligence boom and companies like OpenAI.

   Discussed

   “Karen How's Empires of AI does an excellent job of discussing how many of these people's fart in a glass and sniff it because they have jobs there where they just sit around going, "What if this happens? What if this happens?"”

   Ed Zitron Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron 2025-07-23 Listen at 1:30:32

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