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If Anyone Builds IT, Everyone Dies

by daly on 9/20/25, 11:59 AM with 7 comments

They make excellent points, such as the damage possible if AI can spend money.

Oh, by the way, Google is building a system to allow AI to spend money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s6nGMcyr7k

Read it. Weep. I'm not sure if the authors have met humanity.

https://www.amazon.com/Anyone-Builds-Everyone-Dies-Superhuman/dp/0316595640

  • by bell-cot on 9/20/25, 12:13 PM

    "If Anyone Build IT..." is a cool-sounding trope. Which pushes lots of human emotional buttons. Making that trope a great thing to push, if you goal is to get ahead in our attention economy.

    From my PoV, our "shortish-term profits are the ONLY metric that matters" global techno-capitalist system is vastly more dangerous than AI.

  • by codevark on 9/20/25, 12:21 PM

    I thought it said "If anyone builds IT, everyone dies". Maybe I take my job too seriously.