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— 22 June 2023 —

Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’

Worldviews

“We are sliding, very quickly, towards an AI-controlled and AI-dominated world.”

Michal Kosinski

Read full article in Wired.com by Thor Benson

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