Louis Anslow is a writer, technologist and curator of Pessimists Archive: a project exploring technophobia throughout history. Its archival finds have been praised by Steven Pinker and featured in The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Harvard’s Nieman Lab.

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BELTWAY VS BOTS

This week, a State Department funded report declared that AI posed an existential threat akin to nuclear weapons—and even recommended jail time for unauthorized AI development.