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So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: "AI stands for 'absent Indian'":
Pluralistic: Three AI Insights for Hard-Charging, Future-Oriented Smartypantses
Cory Doctorow
But do the people of the world, allured by TV, supermarkets, and big cars, or by dreams thereof, want to live from their home landscapes? Could they do so, if they wanted to? Those are hard questions, not readily answerable by anybody.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
There’s an arms race in progress, and some experts mutter dark warnings of the Spamularity: the global chaos that will ensue once the first distributed spamming engine achieves human-equivalent sentience.
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