The Anti-AI Grift + College Football Surveillance
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The “Anti-AI” Grift
On Friday, there was a big event in L.A. for a widely-panned book supposedly critiquing the AI industry called If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. I don’t cover the nuances of the AI industry much, but the PR person for the book invited me and I said ‘sure.’ I and a few other tech reporters RSVPd and received confirmation that we’d be attending. A few days later, however, the PR person called and said, actually, I was DISINVITED for being too critical of Silicon Valley. Apparently my reporting on tech billionaires had angered the organizers.