With less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war – and datacentres.
This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the historian Jill Lepore about how this latest AI backlash could influence those all-important elections in November. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the ‘artificial state’?
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2026/aug/21/jill-lepore-on-why-the-artificial-state-is-doomed-podcast