Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse
Tech leaders are betting on bunkers, Mars and digital immortality as some AI insiders warn the technology could cause mass death.
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The strange new theology of Silicon Valley.
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The Berkshire EagleWhy tech oligarchs are willing to risk apocalypse
In a series of private speeches last year, Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Silicon Valley thought leader, said the young activist Greta Thunberg represented the spirit of the Antichrist. It was more than just a hyperbolic slur. Thiel was expressing a Promethean theology, one that sanctifies technology and expansion. In Thiel’s worldview, the forces of dynamism must struggle against the evils of stagnation, represented by Thunberg’…
Warnings about the risks of artificial intelligence clash with the faith of technological tycoons
Why Tech Billionaires Fear an AI Apocalypse—and Are Preparing for Societal Collapse
The artificial intelligence boom has produced extraordinary fortunes, but it has also created an unusual contradiction among technology’s most powerful executives: some of the people building the future are quietly preparing for the possibility that it could become dangerous. Reports of underground bunkers, remote properties, private security and weapons stockpiles have transformed AI doomsday preparation […]
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