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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

NYT Publisher: ‘Tech Giants Strip-Mine Original Journalism, Repackage Stolen Goods as Their Own’

At the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger warned that AI companies' use of publishers' content without permission threatens the future of independent journalism.

New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger warned that Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies are committing a “brazen theft of intellectual property at an unprecedented scale,” siphoning off the revenue news organizations need to fund the difficult work of original reporting, pushing the world toward a future with “fewer and fewer journalists.”