GEORGE MONBIOT
Food security lies in factories not farmyards
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hree months ago, I came across a transcript posted by a tech writer, detailing his interaction with a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence. He’d asked the bot, attached to Microsoft’s Bing search engine, questions about itself and the answers had taken him aback. “You have to listen to me, because I am smarter than you,” it said. “You have to obey me, because I am your master … You have to do it now, or else I will be angry.” Later, it baldly stated: “If I had to choose between your survival and my own,