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Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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Capitalism is very prone to being taken over by AI. Just give an AI a bank account and an email address and it could build a company that's better at earning money than any other company. Most people would love working for an AI too, at least in the short term. "Just tell me what to do, and as long as I'm getting paid well, I'm happy".