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You’re okay, Computer — it’s the corporations that aren’t.
The greatest immediate risk presented to humanity by AI is not robotic control of military weapons, but its application within the logic of capitalism—an alignment that will further relegate human needs as secondary to market forces.
The moral of the story is that there is nothing about AI technology that should lead to mass unemployment and inequality. If those are outcomes, it will be the result of how we structured the rules, not the technology itself.
While writers like me struggle to make ends meet, Hollywood studios get rich off the content we create.
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