‘It’s the End of the World as We Know It: So What Kind of AI Do We Actually Want?’ — the latest issue of the Open Humanities newsletter — went out today. It features discussions of Cory Doctorow’s The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI and Karen Hao’s Empire of AI, in the context of the recent warnings that there is a 10% chance AI could ‘kill all humans’ within the next ten years. But rather than asking only whether AI might destroy us — or what we should do about it — the newsletter asks some slightly different questions: who benefits from persuading us that it might? And what happens when we stop allowing the AI industry to set the terms on which AI itself is discussed and regulated? There are some pretty good previous issues of the newsletter too, if you missed them: https://openhumanities.substack.com/p/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know #ai #human #capitalism #university #management