Effective altruism has fallen on hard times.
Louis Anslow is a writer, technologist and curator of Pessimists Archive: a project exploring technophobia throughout history. Its archival finds have been praised by Steven Pinker and featured in The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Harvard’s Nieman Lab.
This week, a State Department funded report declared that AI posed an existential threat akin to nuclear weapons—and even recommended jail time for unauthorized AI development.
He recently called surrogacy “disgusting,” and said AI could lead to a “technological dictatorship.”
One of the biggest doomsayers of artificial intelligence has done an about-face—and it could help save the world.
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In a desperate play for relevance, the flailing cable news network gave the neo-luddite comic a primetime slot. That’s a mistake for “the most trusted name in news.”
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The left and mainstream media blamed apps for Trump’s presidency. But very online young people just helped beat the GOP in the midterms.
The right-wing tech billionaire is supporting a Luddite caucus of campaigns that scapegoat modern innovations.