Everyone: "We urgently need ethical tech that deals with the big issues facing us as a species"
Tech bros: "Understood. What about an AI app that lets you anonymously switch someone else's heart off & on again? Y'know, for fun. Such an app would only consume about the same energy as 4 Saudi Arabias"
Richard Littler
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