Article 6VPRN They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed

They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed

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J Oliver Conroy
from Technology | The Guardian on (#6VPRN)

How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult

Years before she became the peculiar central thread linking a double homicide in Pennsylvania, the fatal shooting of a federal agent in Vermont and the murder of an elderly landlord in California, a computer programmer bought a sailboat.

The programmer was known to friends, foes and followers as Ziz. She had come to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016 as part of an influx of young people arriving to study the dangers that artificial intelligence could pose to humanity.

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