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It’s also a very stark warning of the future, if they are willing to throw them under the bus when the tech isn’t working, imagine what would happen if they actually had AI.
Neither of my kids had read 1984, which I thought was a scandalous oversight by their school, so I bought them each a copy.
My younger kid said "I guess I can see why it might have been more impressive for you reading it before technology, but this stuff is all pretty obvious".
My kids are both post-iphone, and therefore natives of a totalitarian society in a way that I (pre-Internet) simply am not.
The goal of creating a hyper intelligent machine-slave is an inherently foolish and self-destructive one.