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Historian Thomas Hughes argued that technologies are malleable when young, then harden. Right now we're still shaping AI, or at least it is being shaped by our institutions, norms & use cases Eventually these systems build a momentum of their own. That is why choices now matter https://t.co/t4WZZP2FAR
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