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In February, I picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London. I can’t say for sure whether or not its writers meant to riff on South Park’s underpants gnomes. But if they did, they nailed it: “Step 1: Grow a digital super mind,” it read. “Step 2: ? Step 3: ?” Produced by Pause AI, an international activist group that co-organized the protest, it ended with this plea to the reader: “Pause AI until we know what the hell Step 2 is.” In the South Park episode “Gnomes,” which first aired in 1998, Kenny, Kyle, Cartman, and Stan dis- cover a community of gnomes that sneak out at night to steal underpants from dressers. Why? …
摘自《麻省理工科技评论》(MIT Technology Review)第129卷 第3期 · 2026年5月刊,Will Douglas Heaven。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。