While claiming “I don’t do alarmism,” MS Now’s Lawrence O’Donnell opened up Tuesday’s The Last Word, with what felt like an unskippable advertisement instead of a “news show,” for a new book titled The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Durán. He kicked off the show with the new version of the climate change scare, that same old idea that we were going to die in a decade because of whatever that trending reason in that period, and then it never happens. This time, it’s A.I.
O’Donnell began the show with fear mongering his audience, going as far as hinting that nuclear weapons were just as deadly as A.I. stating:
And this is about the people who are controlling A.I. in this country. And it is so important because nuclear weapons have always been controlled by governments and by and developed an atomic bomb by our government and controlled by our government.
These guys, these people are the people who control A.I., a technology at least as dangerous as nuclear weapons.
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