Lately, Bill Gates has assumed the role of yet another AI Cassandra attempting to sway Donald Trump away from his hard-line accelerationism. But he’s not preaching the familiar message you may think he is if you don’t read past headlines. He made an intriguing case to the New York Times’ Ezra Klein in an interview published on Tuesday. In one sentence, here’s that case: “The ability to do a cyberattack that scrambles all of the bank accounts, shuts down the electric grid — that exists today, and we know that’s the case.”
Your eyes might have glazed over while reading that sentence, so let me point out the three words I find a bit remarkable…
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