I struggle to think of a new technology that doesn’t come to us in the form of a faustian bargain: comfort and convenience at the cost of capability. And as with all deals with the devil, it rarely works out as intended, the benefit gained being marred in some way by unforeseen side effects and disastrous consequences.
Nowhere is this dynamic more evident to me than in the mad, headlong rush nations and corporations are throwing themselves into over so-called ‘Artificial Intelligence’.
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