Alleged sheet from a 1979 IBM training program
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…
