This is a tool.

It's technology.

Is your hammer loyal?

Right?

Is your car loyal?

Like that doesn't mean anything.

But it's part of this narrative of AIs are separate autonomous thinking agents that are maybe now in their infancy.

And so we have to nurture them and raise them right.

And then they become things where we can displace accountability to those things instead of keeping the accountability where it belongs.

Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks.

And before we get into this week's episode, just a reminder that this month, April of 2023, is the third birthday of Tech Won't Save Us.

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of imploded over the

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