"I am Bing, and I am evil" - by Erik Hoel
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Microsoft's new AI really does herald a global threat
Humans didn’t really have any species-level concerns up until the 20th century. There was simply no reason to think that way—history was a succession of nations, states, and peoples, and they were all at war with each other over resources or who inherits what or which socioeconomic system to have. Then came the atom bomb. Immediately it was clear its power necessitated species-level thinking, beyond nation states. During World War II, when the Target Committee in Los Alamos made their decisions of where to drop the bombs, the first on their list was Kyoto, the cultural center of Japan. But…
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