A Throwback Thursday post.
First off, the thing that is currently being called AI is not really AI, depending on your definition of AI. It’s not conscious. It’s uncannily able to resemble consciousness because humans tend to attribute consciousness to things that science says are not conscious. I’m not even sure if it would pass the Turing Test, although that has been criticized as insufficient for detecting consciousness.
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As a science fiction geek, I want to know where my fully automated luxury space communism went.
I don’t want to live in the Handmaid’s Tale, aka Project 2025, though I acknowledge that all the things in the Handmaid’s Tale have already been done to Black and Indigenous women.
These are only the most obvious and visible dystopian nightmares, however. In the dank corners of the internet, other scary visions are brewing.
There are also some hopeful scenarios available.
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