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        "alt": "Excerpt from Charlton McIlwain’s “Black Software”:\n\nPowell wanted them riled up. He aimed to instigate a fight. He prepared the people for political battle, to take their anger to the streets. But before he provided that call to action, Powell clarified the problem, as he saw it.\nI shall not quote statistics. To do so would be a waste of your time and that of my staff. We know that the Afro-American is the last-hired, first-fired. We know that he pays a tax on being black, which makes him the lowest wage earner in this Nation. We know that he is quarantined, regardless of ability and education, so that his highest achievement can be the attainment of only creature comforts. We know that he composes the largest number of unemployed in this Nation today. We know that the new era of automation does not include him. We know that Government— local, State and Federal-rigidly excludes him or gives him token consideration at high levels and mass menial jobs at low levels.\nThe new era of automa",
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        "alt": "Tweet from @paulg:\nWhat if someone decides to teach an Al that\n\"silence is violence?\" Will it attack silent people in order to neutralize them? We're going to have to think carefully before making claims like that once we have a powerful servant that takes us literally.\n\nWith the image of a poster that says “white silence is violence” with “BLM” repeated on the sides",
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  "text": "Adam Clayton Powell on race and automation, 1961\n(concern that low paying jobs will be automated away, disproportionately affecting Black people: accurate, happening)\n\nPG on race and automation, 2023\n(concern that AI will attack white people for not speaking up about racism: unlikely, not happening)"
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