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Re: <nettime> Bruce Schneier: The Anthropic ‘Fable’ saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora’s box. What now? (TG)




On 17/06/2026 09:59, Menno Grootveld via nettime-l wrote:
Yes, but my standpoint is: we have opened this Pandora's Box much longer ago, about -----

....45,000 years ago, when a chancer in a tribe realised the powers of and over the collective imagination that a flickering torch light wielded in the cave when combined with well structured paintings made with well compositioned colours on the cave wall...

Stone age algorithms.

As for "singularity": It will be reached not when machines are as smart as people, but when the quest to produce such machines have dumbed down people enough to be machine-like.

Richard Dawkins recently proved that point to have been reached.

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