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The Racist Tesla Bot

The Racist Tesla Bot

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Mar 07, 2023
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This is the final installment in a series revisiting some of the writing I’ve done on AI, free to all who subscribe. Thank you for your continued support.

The following piece first appeared in Wired.

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Optimus (robot) prototype at Tesla's AI Day 2022. (Wiki)

TWENTY YEARS AGO, dotcom evangelists wouldn't shut up about the web as a land of milk and honey, an e…

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