The Real AI Takeover Already Happened—and It Was Bureaucratic
A few weeks ago, a computer at my bank decided I was a security risk. And the human on the phone told me, flat out, that she could not overrule it. I half-joked, asking who was really in charge here, her or the computer. We spend a lot of energy arguing about whether the machines will someday get smart enough to take over. They already took over. Not because they got smart, they’re still incredibly limited. We just handed them the keys anyway. That’s the actual problem.
Here’s what kicked this off for me. A colleague forwarded me a lecture and said, Dave, you’ve got to watch this, you’re going to either love it or hate it. So I did, and I watched the whole thing without once hitting pause, which for my modern attention span really says something. It’s a talk by the historian Yuval Noah Harari, given at...
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