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Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we\\u2019re all going to be saving a lot of time. That\\u2019s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence that fires all the nukes or turns us all into paperclips. Which, some experts seem to think, will surely happen.

Today we\\u2019re gonna talk about hype. Not the exciting kind of hype, but Criti-Hype, a kind of techno doomerism we\\u2019re often fond of here at Motherboard. Social media, biogenetics, Artificial Intelligence. These things could ruin us all. At least \\u2026 that\\u2019s what people tell you when they\\u2019re selling something.

Lee Vinsel is a professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the host of the People & Things podcast. His Medium post that caught our eye is: You\\u2019re Doing it Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype.

Stories discussed in this episode:

You\\u2019re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype

The Open Letter to Stop \'Dangerous\' AI Race Is a Huge Mess

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