Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the ...
Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their chatbots, from the jobspocalypse once AI can do our jobs better than us, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us all into paperclips.
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