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Can AI Not Be Evil? Troubling New Research

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Rod Dreher
Jul 29, 2025
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Several of you have sent me the newest essay by the writer Ted Gioia, whose Substack is terrific. In it, Ted writes that AI is bound to become more evil as it develops. He is not making a supernatural, or woo-woo claim. Rather, he’s saying that it is in the machine logic of the thing. Why? Look:

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