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The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe

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A close reading of prophetic fiction in the age of artificial superintelligence

The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe "All my life I have been a liar. Even my truths were untrue—for I never once spoke for truth, only ever for myself." — Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky, Demons "The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else." — Eliezer Yudkowsky, Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk Prologue: A Confession of Sorts I should begin with a confession, though confessions in the Dostoevskian mode are never quite what they seem. They are perf

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