Episode
Weaponizing Uncertainty: How Tech is Recycling Big Tobacco’s Playbook
Your Undivided Attention · Mar 20, 2025 · 51 min
From Big Tobacco to Big Tech, powerful industries have perfected the art of manufacturing doubt about their harms. In this episode, historian Naomi Oreskes reveals the playbook corporations have used throughout history to weaponize uncertainty, fund fake experts, and shift blame to individuals—and what it all means for AI.