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LessWrong · Aug 21, 2026

Misaligned AI in the Bronze Age

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The first artificial intelligence was booted up around 4000BC in southern Iraq. It seems to have begun as something like a bank, a temple pooling grain against famine. As that AI evolved, it formed the world's first city around itself: Uruk . Over the next thousand years it became a religion, landlord, insurance company, employer, slaveholder, infrastructure-builder and the most powerful military…

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