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Like Dancing Robot Dogs, AI Will Start By Being Amusing And End Up Deadly

3 min readMay 29, 2025
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However amazing, useful or convenient you find AI to be, just realize you are currently witnessing it at its very best. And like every other invention, it will soon be utterly taken over and controlled by a few billionaires and corporations that want to give you as little as possible while extracting from you as much as possible. Just remember that MTV began as a platform for unknown artists to make creative, low-budget videos in order to gain access to an audience, and then think of what it soon devolved into. Just recall that The History Channel and A&E once created intelligent and useful content. Just think about how network news shows once worked under the understanding that they had an obligation to inform their audience even at the cost of ratings and profits. Just imagine what AI will devolve into once the general populace has become accustomed to and dependent upon it. And just imagine what the general populace will devolve into once they’ve entirely abandoned research for simply asking mommy AI for the answer. Unlike your real mother, AI will never tell you to look it up yourself.

Already I see people abandoning doing actual research in favor of simply asking AI a question. I foresee critical thinking devolving as quickly as the ability of the average person to find their way from point A to point B without…

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