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Why doesn't [Eric Schmidt] see that the thing that people are afraid of with artificial intelligence is not just technology in the abstract. It's that they saw what Eric Schmidt and his cohort of Silicon Valley decision makers did the last time they were given a new technology to guide. They saw them build the dark pattern version of it. They lived it. And now they are terrified that they're going to do the same dark pattern thing on top of the next new technology. Casey Muratori in a video breaking down Eric Schmidt's commencement speech to the University of Arizona, bringing in context from the first part to consder more deeply why the audience might have been boing him in the second part when he brought up AI. via lobste.rs, which links this transcript if you'd rather read. I find AI a really useful and exciting technology for me, personally, but I share significant fears about where the people in control of it (for whom, it should be noted, I could be broadly said to work) will…