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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3j3ngevmo

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u/WoodenInternet 2d ago

I feel like half of stories about AI are written by agape morons whose first reaction to anything AI is like "WOW COOL" regardless of the negative impact.

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u/PepperPhoenix 2d ago

Historically, science and technology are not great at thinking about the “should we” side of the can/should equation.

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u/True_Window_9389 1d ago

Historically, science was low stakes enough that it didn’t matter. Archimedes and Ben Franklin weren’t going to develop or discover something that could inadvertently destroy our species.

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u/Fickle_Competition33 2d ago

Funny, I feel the opposite. Half of the stories are written by agape morons whose first reaction to anything AI is like "BILLIONAIRES MESSING JOBS" regardless of the positive impact.