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Curing cancer won’t redeem AI - by Ruxandra Teslo

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Fears around AI are about loss of human agency and purpose. Curing cancer won’t fix that.

“Death is not the worst of all evils.” (General John Stark) A few weeks ago, a poll result began circulating on X: Americans now appear to be more hostile to the construction of data centers than to the construction of nuclear power plants. This is striking because for decades, the nuclear reactor has been the archetypal object of anti-abundance politics. Looking at how nuclear power plants have become so hated is instructive. On many objective grounds, they are perfectly fine (actually, they are glorious): a low-cost, low-carbon emission form of energy. But a big part of what made…

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