{
  "id": 17787,
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy",
  "title": "Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy",
  "summary": "On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about \"government by machines\" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.",
  "authors": "Anthony Ha",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "bias-fairness",
  "orgs": "xai",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-09T15:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-10T05:10:00.488Z",
  "source_slug": "techcrunch-ai",
  "source_name": "TechCrunch",
  "source_homepage": "https://techcrunch.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17787",
  "original_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}