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How Tech Overlords Profit Off AI Predictions | Carissa Véliz
Is the end of privacy inevitable? Is programmable money inevitable? Is it inevitable that artificial intelligence will eliminate most of the world’s white-collar jobs?
Oxford professor Carissa Véliz argues that such claims are a red flag.
She’s the author of the new book “Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future.”
Someone who says a future is inevitable is trying to get you to do something and benefit from your belief, she argues.
She is convinced that such self‑fulfilling prophecies only work if we believe them and she urges people to defy these narratives by asking: Who is…
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