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AI is already killing people

Canadian writer Cory Doctorow has described AI as a virtual asbestos that corporations are shovelling into the walls of our society. Once the mistake is admitted, he says, it will take decades to dig the rotten stuff back out again. But will the mistake be admitted? Or do the terrible faults of AI actually suit some of the powerful groups who run the world? Naturally I paid attention to some of the recent stories in which AI corporate overlords warned that their inventions might kill us all within a decade. I had to laugh. First, because…

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Plausible future scenarios

Now, with the financial and military dominance of the West coming to an end, not to mention global economic growth in general, all previously democratic nations have started to behave like their authoritarian counterparts. No wonder: they’re running a race against the clock to install as many surveillance cameras, software backdoors and data centers as possible to store and analyze all citizen’s personal data before the AI-bubble pops and the financial system breaks down… Causing the last remains of the social contract to go up in smoke. With this mass surveillance, combined with a rapid development…

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AI turns everything to custard

My grandson came home from school the other day with a one-page handout about National Simultaneous StoryTime 2026. It was a two-sided sheet with activities relating to this laudable event, which is organised by the Australian Library and Information Association. The idea of the event is that school pupils all over Australia get to read or listen to a particular book that has been chosen by the association - at the same time. The handout my grandson brought home was produced to complement the event. Apart from the front page illustration for colouring in, there were…

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