{"id":312326,"date":"2026-01-26T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=312326"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:00:54","slug":"what-is-driving-the-ai-hype-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/01\/what-is-driving-the-ai-hype-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Driving the AI Hype Machine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>19 Jan 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Artificial intelligence is routinely framed as unstoppable \u2013 a technology the world must adapt to, not question. But as companies invest hundreds of billions and the hype accelerates, scrutiny has fallen away. Cory Doctorow on who controls the story around AI and why past tech \u201crevolutions\u201d offer a warning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is driving the AI hype machine? \u2014 Cory Doctorow | The Listening Post\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p6OwIIDZuso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 Jan 2026 &#8211; Artificial intelligence is routinely framed as unstoppable \u2013 a technology the world must adapt to, not question. But as companies invest hundreds of billions and the hype accelerates, scrutiny has fallen away. Who controls the story around AI and why past tech \u201crevolutions\u201d offer a warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1733,1778,2060],"class_list":["post-312326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-conflict-analysis","tag-profits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312327,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312326\/revisions\/312327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}