Nightmare scenario
Where AI runs the financial world.
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The architect of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee today talked about some of his concerns for the internet over the coming years, including a nightmarish scenario where artificial intelligence (AI) could become the new 'masters of the universe' by creating and running their own companies.
Masters of the universe is a reference to Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, regarding the men (and they were men) who started racking up multi-million dollar salaries and a great deal of influence from their finance roles on Wall Street and in London during the computerised trading boom pre-Black Monday
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My Opinion
Welcome to our nightmare.
The only difference might be who is the prey.
It would appear that things haven't been going too well for the little guy
since the central banks took over.
Sure they were.
But you know how they say there's another person behind every Great man? Some of those were men too because now we talk about the gays but queers are only so much of the population ;)
They may have been men in this instance but that might not be the only thing they have in common or the most relevant.
Why do you think it's important to stress that they were men?