Will AI Be Our Digital Messiah or Silicon Grim Reaper?
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Description: From ChatGPT's eerie poetry to Hinton's dramatic Google exit, we're building godlike machines with less empathy than a DMV clerk. While half of us fear extinction, the other half hopes AI fixes climate change—it's like asking your executioner for financial advice on the way to the guillotine.
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The "why" is hilariously simple: we're technological toddlers with nuclear-powered toys. We crave godlike power without the responsibility, building machines smarter than us because we're too lazy to solve problems ourselves. It's like giving a pyromaniac matches and hoping he'll remodel your kitchen instead of burning down the neighborhood. Pure human hubris—our evolutionary superpower and inevitable downfall.
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