Status Updates From Empire of AI: Inside the re...

restarting the audiobook, hartzog this is a banger sorry i didn’t finish during the semester

oooohhhhh now - finally - it’s getting good. Chapter 16 is where we hear about actual, specific, devious and dirty lies. The Prologue - and all the chapters up til now - had me thinking Hao was going to stay vague where we knew it was actually juicy and continue to feed us obnoxious levels of detail where it wasn’t.

What's most striking about these AI companies is how nakedly anti-human and for-profit above all else they are, and always have been. While they've hidden this truth for a while behind utopian promises of finding cures to diseases and solving wars, their actions have always gone directly against these promises. While they've only recently begun openly admitting as much, their actions always spoke louder.