This is it. The world, as you know, it is over. Completely done. It's not about to be over. It's over.

Some of the scientists who helped build AI are now sounding the alarm.

I was selling AI as a great thing for decades, and I was wrong. I was wrong. There is a longer term existential threat

that will arise when we create digital beings that are more intelligent than ourselves. We have

no idea whether we can stay in control. While others say that AI will usher in unfathomable abundance,

I've always believed that it's going to be

the most important invention that humanity will ever make.

This really will be a world of abundance.

And among these fears and these fantasies,

we seek the story of our future.

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In a small town in Ohio, the mail starts to turn against its people.

Over a thousand letters, all written by hand, each one threatening to spill a secret,

and no one knows who's writing them.

Also, sometimes the monster doesn't live in the dark.

Sometimes he walks Main Street in broad daylight, and everyone sees him coming.

In Skidmore, Missouri, everyone knows his name.

In one summer afternoon, they decide that enough is enough.

This is Deviant.

We're all wired differently.

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