How Silicon Valley Learned to Love Killer Robots

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News Source : The Atlantic

News Summary

  • Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Sam Altman read science fiction as young people.
  • Musk read Asimov’s Foundation series when he was 10.
  • Thiel directed his venture-capital fund to focus on “science-fiction-type investing.” Lepore wants to understand some strange turns in our world, such as our embrace of a technology that might just lead to our elimination..
  • In seeking the source of all these dark fantasies, Lepore reveals something else: the power and stubborn persistence of the adolescent mind.
After reading Jill LeporesThe Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one.

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