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Douglas Murray: I see dangers of AI firsthand — as people make doppelgangers of me!

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Every new technology brings fears. No sooner were the printing presses invented than people were smashing them up. Industrialization brought its own opponents. And in our own time everything from smartphones to cryptocurrencies have had their naysayers.

But there is a growing backlash to one particular technology that is going to define our era: AI.

Just this week Eric Schmidt — the former CEO of Google — was booed by students during a commencement speech at the University of Arizona. Other students, in Florida and Tennessee, have also protested against the changes that AI is likely to bring to their work lives.

And it is understandable.

Nobody should be surprised that students might dislike being told that many of their expensively-acquired skills are about to become useless. Or that the careers they were being lined up for are going to be taken by the machines.

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