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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have been Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI ...

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have ...

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