# We Are Being Driven To Our Doom By Mindless Machines Of Our Own Making

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Podcast: [JOHNSTONE](https://stenobird.com/podcast/johnstone-939221)
Published: 2026-05-11T03:19:50+00:00
Episode link: https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/we-are-being-driven-to-our
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Duration seconds: 280

## Resource

It's not impossible to solve our world's problems, it only looks that way because we've created systems which cause human behavior to be driven by mindless mechanisms of our own making rather than by human interest. Reading by Tim Foley.

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