Separating AI Hope from AI Hype

EFF's How to Fix the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation

Aug 13, 202500:39:02Technology

If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies, or help us live forever, or take over the world and exterminate...

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