I’m Not Afraid Of AI Because Technology Has Fulfilled Every Promise

Aren’t we all happier than we’ve ever been?

James Klein
Slackjaw

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Once upon a time, there were people who were afraid of the Internet. Can you imagine? It seems absurd now, looking back at the paranoid fearmongers who thought the Internet wasn’t going to be an unassailable source of wisdom and goodness.

Today we know the Internet brings out nothing but the best in people. That’s why we shouldn’t be afraid of AI.

Before the Internet, all we had were books. We couldn’t even check comments online to see if we hated the books enough. Now we don’t need books. We don’t have to rely on authors, reporters, or experts for information. Just as predicted by people who financially benefited from the Internet, we are all citizen journalists now. We do our own investigations, which are more credible and fact-checked than any media outlet, according to my news site, infofart.com.

We don’t even need doctors, now that we get health advice from Joe Rogan’s podcast. We diagnose ourselves, make our own medicines, and watch YouTube videos to perform home surgeries. Medical bills are a thing of the past!

When the Internet was first introduced, observers wrote about the “death of work.” One day, they imagined, labor-saving devices would make us…

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James Klein
Slackjaw

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