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For What AI Could Do to Democracies, Look to the Petrostates

via Foreign Policy

The challenge is not that AI will make societies poorer. Rather, it is that it will make them richer in ways that render many citizens economically dispensable for continued economic growth, Cullen S. Hendrix writes in Foreign Policy on why our AI future could resemble the petrostate present.

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