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The Risk of AI Isn't Skynet

Just as a reminder of what's being gambled on "AI supremacy": it's not just financial capital, it's everything.

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Charles Hugh Smith
Nov 06, 2025
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The risk that AI transitions from Servant to Master is dramatically appealing--Skynet!--but the real risks are in the mundane realms of the socio-economic order. As I explain in my new book Investing In Revolution, technological revolutions share the same dynamic: those profiting from the innovations push them pell-mell, without regard for future conseq…

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