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New Yorker cartoon by Paul Noth pokes fun at AI
Original: Cartoon by Paul Noth, The New Yorker # Existentialism # AI # efficiency # wish # programming # autonomy # rhetoric # Sup
A New Yorker cartoon by Paul Noth is circulating widely, tagged with themes of existentialism, artificial intelligence, programming and autonomy. Readers are sharing it as a wry commentary on superintelligence, with some finding in it suggestions of extinction risk and nihilism. It has struck a chord amid ongoing public debate about the efficiency and autonomy of AI systems and what humanity might wish for from them.
Why now: Ongoing public anxiety and debate about superintelligent AI is driving engagement with satirical takes on the technology.
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