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Why the threat from the rampaging AI machine went ignored

Letters 25 Aug

United Kingdom

Why the threat from the rampaging AI machine went ignored — Sources: Letters

Jonathan Michie on his father’s efforts in the 1970s to map out concerns regarding widespread social coercion driven by automation. Plus a letter from Callum Brown Jill Lepore asks why nobody listened to warnings about the threats posed from the AI revolution ( Democracy v the machine, 18 August ). As she is a Harvard professor, her piece is understandably US-centric. But in 1972 there was an inte

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