- Jun 2021
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www.atlanticcouncil.org www.atlanticcouncil.org
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Weaponized: Understanding the COVID-19 narrative arms race. (n.d.). Atlantic Council. Retrieved 30 June 2021, from https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/covid-narrative-arms-race/
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- Sep 2018
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www.mnemotext.com www.mnemotext.com
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. Even if all the governments of the world were to understand the “threat” and be in deadly fear of it, progress toward the goal would continue. The competitive advantage – economic, military, even artistic – of every advance in automation is so compelling that forbidding such things merely assures that someone else will get them first.
In this paragraph the author creates an intentional analogy between technological Singularity and nuclear bomb technology. After the catastrophe of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the governments tried to limit the production of nuclear bombs and signed many treaties to ban countries from achieving the needed technology to create such bombs. That proved to be a big failure since many countries such as Pakistan and India were able to create atomic bombs. The same situation applies to the Technological Singularity, as the author has mentioned many countries will not understand the threat and there will be a race towards achieving such technologies.
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