"f you had told a lay observer a decade ago that there would be a crisis over Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms banning the president of the United States for inciting a violent riot against Congress that included a barechested, behorned man dressed as the “QAnon Shaman,” you would likely be accused of writing bad science fiction."
It wasn't popular but neither was it unheard of for people to recognize social media as antisocial a decade ago. Plenty of people would not be surprised a bit by that headline. People didn't just decide not to join Facebook and Twitter in a void by themselves; there was plenty of media (and lots of fiction being written for decades) warning about social media ten years ago.
And the fear of robots was always more about their human controllers.
AI is it's own issue, although the idea that we are being manipulated by a perverse AI has crossed my mind, as an entertaining but not realistic idea.
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"f you had told a lay observer a decade ago that there would be a crisis over Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms banning the president of the United States for inciting a violent riot against Congress that included a barechested, behorned man dressed as the “QAnon Shaman,” you would likely be accused of writing bad science fiction."
It wasn't popular but neither was it unheard of for people to recognize social media as antisocial a decade ago. Plenty of people would not be surprised a bit by that headline. People didn't just decide not to join Facebook and Twitter in a void by themselves; there was plenty of media (and lots of fiction being written for decades) warning about social media ten years ago.
And the fear of robots was always more about their human controllers.
AI is it's own issue, although the idea that we are being manipulated by a perverse AI has crossed my mind, as an entertaining but not realistic idea.