Cory Doctorow on Nostr: AI's ability to make - or assist with - important decisions is fraught: on one hand, ...
AI's ability to make - or assist with - important decisions is fraught: on one hand, AI can *often* classify things very well, at speed and scale that outstrips the ability of any reasonably resourced group of humans. On the other, AI is sometimes *very* wrong, in ways that can be terribly harmful.
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