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Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should: The Ethical Illusion of AI Power- Alan Robertson

We used to marvel at new tools. Now, we expect them. When a new model is released, the first response is excitement about what it can do, not whether it should exist. Companies compete to launch faster, smarter, and more autonomous systems. Capabilities requiring deep scientific knowledge now arrive as plug-and-play APIs and downloadable code.

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