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Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)

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170 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 10 Apr 25 14:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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vannevar ◴[10 Apr 25 15:05 UTC] No.43644575[source]▶
I don't think Asimov envisioned a world where AI would be controlled by a clique of ultra-wealthy oligarchs.
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1. vannevar ◴[10 Apr 25 20:05 UTC] No.43647566[source]▶
>Asimov’s future was pretty dark. He didn’t come out and say it, but it was implied that we had a lot of big entities ruling everything.

>As I recall, many of his early stories involved "U.S. Robot & Mechanical Men" which was a huge conglomerate owning a lot of the market on AI...

>May want to reread. U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men is pretty prominent in his Robot stories.

Good points from some of these replies. The interview is fairly brief, perhaps he didn't feel he had the time to touch on the socio-economic issues, or that it wasn't the proper forum for those concerns.