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Integrated Evil

We borrow the title for this post from a lucid sentence written many decades ago by philosopher Günther Anders:

“There is no situation that is morally more evil than the situation in which evil has been so fully integrated into the situation that the individual itself is spared from being evil.”

Now comes AI dissident Connor Leahy, the U.S. executive director of ControlAI, an advocacy group focused on educating lawmakers and their staff. Excerpts from a recent interview below:

One plausible imagining of the future, wherein evil becomes wired into the fundamental infrastructure of human life, was offered a decade or so ago by the creators of the TV series The 100:

 

TOO MANY PEOPLE

 

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