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Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse — An Enormous Mistake (Part Three)
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An Enormous Mistake (Part Three)

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse · 20

Near a reservoir north of San Diego, two empires of Argentine ants have been at war every day for more than twenty years. Thirty million of them die a year. They have no idea we exist. So I keep wondering: is there something that looks at us the way we look at them, and could we be building it? Part Three of our…

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