Submission + - How to destroy America: Let it fall in love with AI, then pull the plug (nerds.xyz) 1
BrianFagioli writes: If someone wanted to destroy America, they might not need missiles or boots on the ground. Just let us build our world around AI. Let us become fully dependent on machine learning and automation. Let us give up our skills and instincts in exchange for convenience. Then wait. When the moment is right, pull the plug.
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... an article to go with this?
I mean, this concept ain't new.
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan, "Why We Need To Understand Science", The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3, (Spring 1990).
Six years later: "We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, so