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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

How corporations got all your data

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Future of AI and Data and Algorithms

The Terminator scenario remains sci-fi, but there are live existing technologies that are already upending our social order right now. We need to be wary of thinking about the political and economic dangers as exclusively about some turning point in which an evil master lord starts killing us or putting us into the matrix. It's not that we shouldn't worry about that, but the amount of our attention that we should divert to that should be rather small.

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