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by LudwigNagasena 1263 days ago
Let’s not kid ourselves. Boring mass surveillance dystopia powered by fancy curve fitting algorithms is not going to be anything like Skynet.
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Algorithmic dragnets running over all communications technology, every human carrying a microphone everywhere that they don't have control over, and walking killer robots sound very much like Skynet. The big difference is that it won't be run by an overarching AI, but by the grandchildren of the people who own everything now.