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"textContent": "In his talk \"Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People,\" Maciej Cegłowski takes apart the fear that a self-improving AI will bootstrap itself into a god and wipe out humanity — the Nick Bostrom, paperclip-maximizer scenario beloved in Silicon Valley.\n\nHe finds the whole thing \"somewhat silly, and full of unwarranted assumptions.\" — Read the rest \n\nThe post Is the AI apocalypse a religion in disguise? appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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