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The most powerful person in Silicon Valley

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    For everyone Marshmallow Man, there needs to be a Ghostbusters team. Absolute power corrupts absoluetly We may be entering the age when holders of the AI technology surpass the powers of...

    “Have you seen the movie Ghostbusters? It’s like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man tramping around,” one VC tells me before I visit SoftBank.

    For everyone Marshmallow Man, there needs to be a Ghostbusters team.

    As Facebook and Google have demonstrated, machines take on the attributes of their makers. Algorithms, software, and networks all have biases, and Son likes to bet on founders who remind him of himself, or at least share his ideals. Son’s values, then, will become our own, dictating the direction of this machine-powered world.

    Absolute power corrupts absoluetly

    We may be entering the age when holders of the AI technology surpass the powers of government where government is then sustained to create the illusion of government, at least in what will have been democratic governments.

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