Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s Slide into Techno-Authoritarianism
In a wide-ranging and incisive conversation, Kara Swisher and Sam Harris dissect Silicon Valley’s alarming political shift toward authoritarianism, particularly the embrace of Trumpism by once-liberal tech billionaires. Harris argues that figures like Elon Musk have abandoned ethics for p
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