Penned from the crooked
timber of humanity
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Are We Automating the Banality and Radicality of Evil?
By Anja Kaspersen, Kobi Leins & Wendell Wallach When George Orwell coined the term “totalitarianism,” he had not lived in a totalitarian regime but was merely imagining what it might look like.…
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ELIZA, the paperclip maximizer: A story
An unspecified government agency released a set of decoded log files [see below], recovered from an accident at an AI research lab. According to an eyewitness who visited the site,…
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Catching tigers in red weather and the falling human
Every technology comes to be used to meet the needs of its time. Those needs interact with the often hidden-from-view affordances that reside in the tech to radically skew the…