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Before smartphones, there were periods of your day that simply had no content in them. Waiting for a bus. Sitting in a waiting room. Walking from one place to another without headphones.
There is a version of the AI story that gets told in conference halls and tech publications — one of sentient robots, existential risk, and civilizational transformation. It is dramatic, speculative, and, for most people, utterly disconnected from their actual lives.
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