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The Cult of AI (www.rollingstone.com)

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...“We believe Artificial Intelligence can save lives – if we let it. Medicine, among many other fields, is in the stone age compared to what we can achieve with joined human and machine intelligence working on new cures. There are scores of common causes of death that can be fixed with AI, from car crashes to pandemics to wartime friendly-fire.”

As I type this, the nation of Israel is using an AI program called the Gospel to assist its airstrikes, which have been widely condemned for their high level of civilian casualties...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

This is written by Behind the Bastards host Robert Evans. They just released an episode that follows this article pretty closely. Check it out if you'd like to listen to more of this sort of content.