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TESCREALism: The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares

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TD Original Jun 15, 2023 The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares To understand the deepening divide between AI boosters and doomers, it’s necessary to unpack their common origins in a bundle of ideologies known as TESCREAL. Image: Truthdig / Adobe This is Part II of the "Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century: New Names, Old Ideas" Dig series Émile P. Torres / Truthdig Contributor Support Link copied Comments Save This TESCREAL—pronounced “tess-cree-all.” It’s a strange word that you may have seen pop up over the past few months. The renowned computer scientist Dr. Timnit Gebru f

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