Brittany Smith: We need to work urgently to understand, prevent and remedy present-day harms. She says we are perpetrating historical patterns of technological advancement at the expense of vulnerable people. "I am deeply skeptical about narratives that exclusively center speculative rather than actual harm," she writes.
A reading of "Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/five-ways-ai-might-destroy-the-world-everyone-on-earth-could-fall-over-dead-in-the-same-second
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