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The Spindle-Proofing Business

The Spindle-Proofing Business by Sofia Karstens at Brownstone Institute Do you remember the fairy godmother Merryweather in Sleeping Beauty? She's the one who, when the evil queen curses the newborn Aurora to prick her finger on a spindle and die on her sixteenth birthday, can't undo the curse…but she can soften it. So she uses her own gift to change the ending: not death, but a deep, enchanted sleep. There is a whole lot of seemingly coordinated (dare I call it) panic right now around AI. I've written extensively about the legitimate, existential dangers we do need to address in technology…

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