This a quick link to a great piece by David Todd McCarty called The AI Ponzi Scheme And The Greater Fool. Go read it.

Although the piece is richer and deeper than the point I’m singling out, McCarty ties the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence to rise of fascism, neatly summed up by this quote from the piece:
“Once we get to a point where nothing is trustworthy, an authoritarian regime is free to lie with impunity.”
I concur.
I will also go a bit further and say we’ve already reached that point. It’s how we handle it now that we’re here that matters.
Again, go read the piece.
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