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Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All

Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All

CYBER

The Machinist · VICE

June 29, 202338m 5sFull

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Podcast: CYBER (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All
Pub date: 2023-06-16

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Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence that fires all the nukes or turns us all into paperclips. Which, some experts seem to think, will surely happen.


Today we’re gonna talk about hype. Not the exciting kind of hype, but Criti-Hype, a kind of techno doomerism we’re often fond of here at Motherboard. Social media, biogenetics, Artificial Intelligence. These things could ruin us all. At least … that’s what people tell you when they’re selling something.


Lee Vinsel is a professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the host of the People & Things podcast. His Medium post that caught our eye is: You’re Doing it Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype.


Stories discussed in this episode:


You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype


The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess


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