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This is the key realization which is missing from talks about AI dangers.

Total surveillance used to be impossible because the government needed people to spy on other people. They needed to find somebody willing and pay them.

Now it can be automated.

The war won't be humans vs an AI controlling robots. It'll be humans vs the government and rich people controlling AI controlling robots.





There will be no war. As long as people are fed, they won't revolt.



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