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Building StarGate to build SkyNet: We need to be careful what science fiction we turn into reality
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Building StarGate to build SkyNet: We need to be careful what science fiction we turn into reality

How Sci-Fi Dreams Are Becoming AI Realities—For Better or Worse: an op-ed from our very own Finn Hogan

Jan 27, 2025
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Watching Donald Trump announce the $500b ‘StarGate’ AI investment plan, flanked by grinning billionaire tech moguls, I thought two things:

  1. Good lord, that’s a lot of money, and this is a very big deal.

  2. Trump sure makes a lot of sci-fi references for a 78-year-old man who doesn’t read.

US president Donald Trump with Softbank's Masayoshi Son, Oracle's Larry …

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