If you were around in the mid-90s, you remember the conversation. There were two camps about the Internet. One camp said it was a fad for nerds that would destroy human connection. The other camp saw it as the library of Alexandria. They were both right. The internet gave us infinite knowledge, but it also gave us trolls, scams, and surveillance. Today, we are standing at the exact same precipice with Artificial Intelligence. It is easy to hate AI right now. And frankly, a lot of that hate is...

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