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Are you a creature or a machine? How to live in ecological community in a time of AI
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Of course, he continued to produce written works as well: no less than 50 books.
Quoting his friend and collaborator Jackson, Berry invoked a notion of planetary and creaturely consent: “When a few scientists decided to go in, they decided for everybody.” Similarly, when Musk warns of a 20 per cent chance of AI destroying humanity and still plugs away at developing it, he is deciding for all of us.
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Writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry wrote that, ‘the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.’ (Unsplash)
Are you a creature or a machine? How to live in ecological community in a time of AI
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We have been bombarded in recent weeks with apocalyptic headlines about “artificial super-intelligence” and the possibilities of a new era of “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) in which AI achieves human capacities for reason and learning.…
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