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The End of Reading Is Here (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

This fits into my theory that especially along with AI, we are going to see an explosion of the difference between the most and least intelligent participants in our society in the future. Where until now, mostly due to technical limitations, everyone was more less on the same level. We already see some consequences of a wider range of intelligence levels - like populist politics, where high intelligence people manipulate those with lower intelligence. But the real catastrophe will be when the strongest AI gets intelligent enough to manipulate the smartest humans in the same way.