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Why tech billionaires dream of servers in the sky

Behind the hopes for artificial general intelligence is the desire for a world without obligations to governments, workers or fellow citizens

Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman argues that billionaires' predictions about tech futures reveal their psyches, namely, "their hopes and fears." Zuckerman writes: "Behind the hope of [artificial general intelligence] is the eternal dream of capital: a world without workers, who have a nasty tendency to demand safe working conditions and equitable pay, and to slow or stop production when they don’t get them." He adds, too, that recently imagined atmospheric data centers reflect tech billionaires' championing AGI above all else, including well-founded environmental concerns. Read more from Prospect.

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