what science-fiction is there that presents very powerful sentient computers as essentially benevolent forces? off the top of my head, Metavac in Asimov, Minds in IMB, ships in Ancillary series, Thunderhead in Scythe, HER. Much more common when the AI is person-scaled (robots, in particular).

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Good piece by @seva.bsky.social on the growing similarities between Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia: hegemon.substack.com/p/trumps-nea...

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Really love @seva.bsky.social 's application of civ-mil and p-a to the problem of controlling AI, preventing the AI apocalypse even if he cites, gasp, Huntington hegemon.substack.com/p/were-all-g...

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My interview with Yogendra Yadav: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Be careful out there

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