As We May Think No More: From Bush's Memex to AI Alignment
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An essay tracing the evolution from Vannevar Bush's 1945 memex vision to contemporary AI warnings.
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Shout out to the Advent of Computing podcast (https://adventofcomputing.com/) for finally getting me to read Bush's classic essay. As I read it, I was struck by the parallels in AI today.