274 · Tier 5 — High-leverage niche and emerging figures
Sam Seder
Host, The Majority Report
AI position
No x-risk mention
Coverage is political-economy critique of AI industry, not existential risk.
Why influential
Builds a direct, recurring relationship with audiences through long-form or personality-led media; guests and clips can quickly alter candidate incentives and issue salience. Primary policy lanes: labor; elections; media; economic policy.
Who pays attention
Younger progressives, labor and advocacy groups, Democratic campaign digital teams, online creators and independent political audiences
Work samples
- Trump Brings Oligarch Posse to China; The Artificial Inevitability of AI w/ Alex Hanna
May 14, 2026 · podcast
Emma Vigeland (co-host) interviews Alex Hanna on her book 'The AI Con' (co-authored with Emily Bender); critiques AI industry hype.
- Artificial Intelligence: The Technology of Extraction w/ Kate Crawford
Oct 19, 2021 · podcast
Sam and Emma interview Kate Crawford (USC Annenberg, author of Atlas of AI) on AI's environmental/labor/political costs.
- Moms For Liberty Crumbling; OpenAI Drama Explained w/ Randi Weingarten, Jacob Silverman
Nov 22, 2023 · podcast
Discussion of OpenAI board drama and Sam Altman with journalist Jacob Silverman (not an AI-world person).
- TRUMP INDICTMENTS; AI Lawsuit; Ohio Votes w/ Matthew Butterick & Cameron Joseph
Aug 2, 2023 · podcast
Interview with attorney Matthew Butterick on artists' lawsuit against OpenAI/ChatGPT (Butterick is a lawyer, not AI-world).
- The Majority Report — Artificial Intelligence tag archive
May 14, 2026 · podcast
Show's aggregated AI coverage page, useful for tracking future episodes.
AI-world contacts
Alex Hanna — Director of Research; co-host of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)
- Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Interviewed on Majority Report about AI industry hype and critique
Kate Crawford — AI researcher, author of Atlas of AI, USC Annenberg / AI Now Institute / Microsoft Research
- Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Interviewed on Majority Report about AI's political economy and extraction