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Chatbots at the End of the World | Rachel Connolly

… Maybe, though, “innovations” like the executive networking app, Musk’s rocket, or Blender the chatbot, are just pointless vanity projects for wealthy narcissists. Maybe these things seem at odds with what is going on in the world now because the people who decided they wanted them decided this a little while ago, when everything seemed different—or because enormous wealth is, currently, an effective insulator against almost any imaginable disaster, and it’s hard to conceive of a future when this won’t be the case. The motivation to work toward mitigating disaster is minimal for those with the most power to do so. Of course, this situation might be defined as a dystopia too — just a more chaotic one.

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