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 Michele Hanson Michele Hanson An AI world sounds like hell – making humans redundant only serves the interests of an already rich, powerful and creepy tech industry Google’s proposed London headquarters proposed London headquarters.
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 Michele Hanson Michele Hanson An AI world sounds like hell – making humans redundant only serves the interests of an already rich, powerful and creepy tech industry Contact author @michelerhanson Mon 14 Aug ‘17 14.
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 It is creepy.
 Just like the mass manipulation, using “massive swarms of political bots” made possible by artificial intelligence, to make us think and vote this way or that; or the spooky, smiling techies planning utopias that could turn to chaos, disruption and tragedy; or the racist robots that reflect our nastiness – shop-assistant robots, doctor robots, truck-driving robots, sex robots, anything-you-can-do-they-can-do-better robots.
 What is the point of making humans redundant?