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Newsletter Nr. 1.185
Amsterdam, May11, 2024


AI WON'T SAVE US BUT CYBERNETICS COULD - JAN KRIKKE

AI still has a mystical aura. The general public, especially in the West, has ambivalent feelings about AI. Many fear AI will lead to a loss of privacy. Others believe AI will be monopolized by a handful of tech companies while experts have argued that AI could outpace human intelligence and pose an existential danger to humanity.

The more extreme concerns about AI can be traced to science (cyber) fiction. Some cyberfiction depicts AI as a global brain that has a mind of its and evil intentions: taking over the world, enslaving humanity, or worse—eliminating humans. It is never made clear which company, country or other entity would or could build an AI system that can take over the world.

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