“I’ve come to comprehend that Fb shouldn’t be a media firm. It’s a Doomsday Machine,” Atlantic journal govt editor Adrienne LaFrancewrote in 2020. “No single machine ought to be capable of management the destiny of the world’s inhabitants,” she noticed, quoting nuclear strategist Herman Kahn: “Automating the extinction of all life on Earth could be immoral.”
Final week the journal featured a bit by Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, lately added to the masthead as a contributing author. “I’ve mentioned this again and again, that, actually, that is like when 140,000 individuals died immediately in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The identical factor has occurred in our data ecosystem, however it’s silent and it’s insidious. . . . An atom bomb has exploded in our data ecosystem.”
