One common refrain in the AI hype cycle has been that AI development is not only perpetually just a few weeks and another billion away from human-level sentience, but that this sentience will ultimately try to kill us all. Neither of those claims are true. At least, not in the Skynet terminator sense.Instead of a hyper-sentient robot god hunting humans to extinction, AI is far more likely to kill your grandma with badly-automated medicare rejection systems with a 90 percent error rate, pummel you with lazy clickbait slop, give your Instagram credentials to a slob in Boise, and slowly kill your minority neighbors with data center exhaust in a country too corrupt to have working environmental regulators.The real problems with AI mostly make for a shitty movie. As I keep saying, the real issue and fight surrounding AI isn't really with the software, it's the terrible human beings in control of it. These are poorly understood automation platforms, layered on to existing systems…
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