We mock Musk, Altman and Zuck for using bleak sci-fi references to market products — but these 'useful dystopias' might just be the point

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Tech CEOs use dystopian references in their marketing to create an aspirational and misanthropic branding that appeals to consumers' desire for personal benefits despite the potential harm to society.

For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point

Upvote b/c it’s though provoking, but as I posted on this guy’s article:
“…you can ascribe any range of human emotion or motivation to a machine. That doesn’t make it real. The near-term risk of AI is how humans will use it for themselves and against one another.”
Film is art, and we shouldn’t use it as the basis of real world AI policy.