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How to Think About the Current Moment in A.I. | John Borthwick

Hidden Forces

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The Disinformation Machine and the Invasion of Ukraine

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia was a watershed for me. I saw the belly of the beast on the propaganda machine, but I also had the nuance to be able to differentiate at the time. There's this kind of an acknowledgement that disinformation is a term that governments most certainly use to their benefits. People aren't equipped to differentiate with those things because people use heuristics to decide what's true and not true.

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