#peterjcarroll — Public Fediverse posts

"Frank Herbert’s original vision of thinking machines [in Dune] as a ‘spiritual abomination’ seems the more prescient. It seems far more likely that we will enable them to enhance our own stupidities and delusions rather than enable them to become sentient and to attempt to dominate us militarily.

It starts with - do you want your spellings corrected?

Then - do you want your grammar corrected?

Then - do you want your ideas improved, added to, and enhanced?

Then - do you want it all made maximally persuasive?

Lastly - do you want it disseminated by automated target selection?"

https://www.specularium.org/blog/aprblog-2025

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