Tech Won't Save Us   /     How Cloud Giants Cement Their Power w/ Cecilia Rikap

Paris Marx is joined by Cecilia Rikap to discuss the ways Amazon, Microsoft, and Google gain power from companies becoming dependent on their cloud services and how generative AI exacerbates that problem.

Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor in Economics at University College London.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Paris and Cecilia were co-authors on the “Reclaiming digital sovereignty” white paper.
• Cecilia wrote a report called “Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI.”

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