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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joined a rapidly growing cohort of lawmakers Wednesday expressing the need for more artificial intelligence restrictions in the wake of dire human extinction warnings from AI researchers—but said U.S. companies needed to be careful not to lose to China in the race to develop artificial intelligence.

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[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 days ago

Dear goddess, these nutters.

Do you want Skynet? Because that's how you get Skynet.

[-] ShaggyBlarney@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Yes, that feels like what the ai bros are aiming for. Pick your flavor of dream ai: kill-all-humans or pocket-slave.

[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

No but something similar to that. Theres a billionaire cult called tescreal which wants to ”create a worthy successor to humanity”.

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