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Will You Be AI’s Pet? 🐾 👉 https://ow.ly/vcs950Y9Thy Gresham Professor of IT Matt Jones* explores whether #AI is “domesticating” humans - considering the benefits and hidden costs of our evolving relationship with technology *also of @swanseauni.bsky.social
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