AI Prophet Of Doom Only Wants His Spotify Algorithm Fixed

One might reasonably assume that when a man dubbed the 'Prophet of Doom' for Artificial intelligence calls for a global shutdown, his concerns would involve, say, sentient super-weapons or perhaps the complete subjugation of humanity. And indeed, Eliezer Yudkowsky has articulated visions of existential risk that would make even the most hardened techno-optimist consider stocking canned goods.

However, beneath the fervent appeals to cease all development, the true impetus for this digital Luddism appears to be rather more... pedestrian. It seems the venerable doomsayer's current pique stems from his inability to convince the Spotify algorithm to stop recommending hyper-pop remixes of 90s grunge. A genuine crisis, certainly, when one’s personalized sonic landscape is routinely defiled by an errant neural net.