McCaskill: At a certain point systems become entrenched. If you lock in norms around people not having any privacy from state surveillance, that could have really negatively negative long-term repercussions. The more out there thing that he worries about is AI is progressing very, very quickly. That could be a very powerful force for social control. We are witnessing the rise of AI. If we mess it up, what I envision is Terminator 2, right? The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare. The war against the machines.
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