30th September
Why are we spending so much time talking about this idea of AI that people have been talking about since the ’40s and ’50s? I have this game I play sometimes where I read quotes to people about artificial intelligence that I’ve gathered in my research, and I ask, What decade was this statement made in? Sometimes people get it right, but a lot of times they do not, because it all sounds the same.
Timnit Gebru, AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons, Wired, 11 September 2026
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