From writing to the bicycle to the internet, history’s great technology scares ended not in ruin but in human flourishing, and there is little reason to think AI will be the exception.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago, while chasing an unrelated story, we stumbled onto a quietly brilliant little website called Techlashed. It is an interactive timeline of technology-driven moral panics built by Andrew Maynard of Arizona State University\u2019s Future of Being Human initiative, and he built much of it with AI, using the very technology now inspiring the loudest panic of our age to catalog every panic before it. Techlashed offers a much-needed deep historical perspective in the AI conversation<\/p>\n
The pattern it lays bare is comically consistent, because every transformative technology arrives wrapped in dread, and that dread sounds the same every single time. Consider nine of them:<\/p>\n
EXCELLENT PIECE ON THE AI “REVOLUTION” IN COMPARISON TO MANY NEW “DISRUPTIVE” TECHNOLOGIES THROUGHOUT HUMAN EXISTANCE<\/p>\n
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