Episode
AI's job apocalypse & the transhumanist endgame
- Podcast
- The Econoclasts
- Published
- Jun 2, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2090
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://shows.acast.com/these-times/episodes/ais-job-apocalypse-the-transhumanist-endgame
- Audio
- https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b/e/6a1f0ec8a5a56cd151072e44/media.mp3
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-econoclasts-6347002/episodes/ai-s-job-apocalypse-the-transhumanist-endgame/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002/ai-s-job-apocalypse-the-transhumanist-endgame.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the delusions surrounding artificial intelligence by examining how its recent ability to solve complex mathematical problems signals a massive structural threat to the global labour market, while warning against the transhumanist endgame of 'Techlord' Silicon Valley elites like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who view Homo sapiens as mere primitive hardware to be replaced by cyborgs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.