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8. Indeed we can add some technologies to Einstein's prescient warning.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #7)

Sat Jan 4, 2025, 03:55 PM

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95% of the books I read and films I watched about AI were all cautionary tales, starting with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), the first AI creation.

Regarding the atom bomb, Einstein said "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

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