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Today most of our people are so conditioned that they do not wish to harrow clods either with an old horse or with a new tractor. Yet Hardy’s vision has come to be more urgently true than ever. The great difference these sixty years have made is that, though we feel that this work must go onward, we are not so certain that it will. But the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
A move to AI systems will reproduce this kind of racial discrimination at an industrial scale, as AI not only ingests [the racism embedded in its training data](https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Cliff-Sarans-Enterprise-blog/How-racist-bias-is-embedded-in-software-systems) but projects it through reductive classifications and exclusions.
AI Will Create a Thousand Post Office Scandals
Dan McQuillan
Once you start enabling agents like the ones OpenAI pointed toward today, you start building the path toward sophisticated algorithms manipulating the stock market; highly personalized and effective phishing attacks; discrimination and privacy violations based on automations connected to facial recognition; and all the unintended (and currently unimaginable) consequences of infinite AIs colliding on the internet.
How OpenAI Is Building a Path Toward AI Agents
Casey Newton
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