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The Power Broker Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest b...

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The host mentioned that the people making deals with OpenAI might be training their replacements, drawing a parallel to historical power dynamics.

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And if you're a media executive, OpenAI showing up and saying, here is this many millions of dollars for this many years, it looks like free money. Of course, if you're like producing the content or i...

— Episode: AI is killing the internet

Episode: AI is killing the internet

The host mentioned that the people making deals with OpenAI might be training their replacements, drawing a parallel to historical power dynamics.

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And if you're a media executive, OpenAI showing up and saying, here is this many millions of dollars for this many years, it looks like free money. Of course, if you're like producing the content or if you're even just thinking longer term about how a media company or website fits into this AI picture, you recognize that you're sort of, you know, giving access away to something that these companies are explicitly trying to automate. You know, you're sort of like in an institutional sense training your replacement.

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