The three men building the most powerful artificial intelligence in the world are asking to slow it down. The risk that frightened them is real, and here caution is right. But a brake that only binds those who sign it hands the wheel to those who don’t.
A customer asks me for a certificate saying my contributions are in order. The State issues it, from data it already holds. It arrived after thirty-one days, with a quarter of its validity already used up, and in the meantime I had paid the same debt twice.
Every June, at Pride, rainbow flags go by with Guevara’s face on them. In 1960 that man founded a camp where those who did not resemble the model went to be corrected through work, and five years later that machine was pointed at homosexuals. The rights were right. But they served those who gave them…