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Our Own Worst Enemy: AI A Lesser Threat To Humanity Than Humans Are

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"However, Musk and the other AI debaters underestimate the biggest threat to humanity in the AI era: humans," Loup Ventures analyst Doug Clinton wrote in a Monday note. Clinton considers the human response to AI as dangerous as any hostile system. Even if AI fulfills the best intended purposes and leads to widespread prosperity, it would establish a world radically different rendering manual and some intellectual labor obsolete, divorcing human value from work and forcing a new understanding of the meaning of life. "Humans will need to find new purpose outside of work, likely in the uniquely human capabilities of creativity, community and empathy, the things that robots cannot authentically provide," Clinton wrote. The disruptions could be cataclysmic.


Exclusive: 'Minecraft' Luminary Jens Bergensten Talks About the Game's Future

TIME - Tech

Minecraft's mysterious woodland mansions are sprawling timber and cobblestone compounds visible from hundreds of blocks away. They erupt from banks of fairy tale oaks punctuated by giant speckled mushrooms, orthogonal aberrations beckoning like inscrutable mausoleums. Inside lies treasure guarded by grumbling gray beings that can summon winged imps, crowds of snapping teeth, or chase you with hatchets down long carpeted halls. There's even a variant of the latter nicknamed "Johnny." It's available now for the Java edition, and includes other curious novelties, like llamas (they'll schlep your stuff around and spit on command), shulker boxes (they retain what's inside even when broken) and village cartographers who'll sell you exploration maps, so you can find your way to the new mansions, as well as the older ocean monuments.