By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

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Think about this research nearly every day now reading the news.

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Hugh Trevor-Roper, who spent a lot of time interviewing mid-ranking people in Nazi-Germany just after the war said exactly the same.

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Fascism is anti-intellectual. It provides mediocre people an opportunity to get revenge on those more successful than them. It is always accompanied by corruption and mismanagement as it values loyalty over merit. Just like Trump does.

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Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

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