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b"We check in on some enemies of the show to see what\\u2019s new with them. Uber has finally posted an operating profit for the first time in history \\u2013 and it only took more than $31 billion in losses, plus a lot more exploitation and immiseration, to get there. Dan Ariely, a famous behavioral economist, has ironically been caught using fraudulent data for a study about honesty that has been used as the basis for insurance initiatives to combat fraud. Finally, Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, has written an abhorrent essay arguing that we all have moral obligations to embrace the development of AI weapons\\u2014or else we will be \\u201cpunished\\u201d for refusing the call of duty.\\n\\nStuff we reference:\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Uber makes first operating profit after racking up $31.5bn of losses https://www.ft.com/content/dae2b90e-1ba0-4e8f-aabc-34aae4ca05d7\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you? https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-francesca-gino-harvard-dishonesty-fabricated-data\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html\\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)"