"Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.“


-William Irwin Thompson

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Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

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