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Re:The case against AI everything, everywhere, all at once by aaroninsf on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:28PM (#37945802)
This is us now if you squint.

Survival risk, maybe not, but we are certain to see massive die-off and a decades-long cold start given a perturbation maybe an order larger than the COVID pandemic, when the system is already undergoing unprecedented stress from climate change, as appears likely in the coming century...

Re:The case against AI everything, everywhere, all at once by rbanffy on Saturday October 21, 2023 @10:55AM (#37967295)
COVID was already a lot of disruption to industrial supply chains. A one-two punch like that and we might see some sizeable societal collapse.