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"The authors could have offered global employment statistics in support of their allegation about the Whiteness of AI. Unsurprisingly, they do not bother to do that either, because the numbers from India and China would crush their argument." – Sean Welsh

The White of the AI

“It is a truth little acknowledged that a machine in possession of intelligence must be white.” I do appreciate a Jane Austen reference and so I read on, hoping to find a stylish argument, only to

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