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Technologies are not neutral but political, and AI founders' views mix millennialism, eugenics, utopia-seeking, and spreading beyond Earth.

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space Getting off the planet, and why anybody thinks it matters.

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  1. Branko Milanovic

    Economist specialising in global income inequality

    Technologies are not neutral, but political. Money is indeed one of the incentives, but not the only one. A mixture of millennialism, eugenics, search for utopia and for a spread of the specie beyond the confines of the Earth, are all elements we find among the founders’ views.

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