The new Blob is even scarier than the old one

Source: NonZero Newsletter
by Robert Wright

“As the age of artificial intelligence dawns, the various people who make a living as Blobsters — the think tankers, the past and present government officials, the military-industrial-complex titans, the influential media figures — show few signs of getting the picture. Whereas the atomic age spawned lots of creative and even enlightened thinking about its revolutionary implications for national and international security, the age of AI seems so far to be having roughly the opposite effect.” (04/25/26)

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