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AbeWasHereAgain t1_ixn44xm wrote

Reply to comment by iNstein in Mocking AI Panic: Turing anticipated many of today’s worries about super-smart machines threatening mankind (IEEE, 2015) by adt

…but are they really wrong for freaking out? Unless government backstops the chaos, many people are absolutely screwed.

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iNstein t1_ixptgb7 wrote

I'd say that given how they covered the pandemic, it is a good bet that they will protect people affected. If course I don't live in a 3rd world country like the US so might be different there, watch who you vote for.

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corwynaf t1_ixus6di wrote

Most people. And it won't. Most of us are or will soon be useless to the owning class, and a source of instability and threat. From their perspective culling is the only reasonable course of action.

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