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Sydney is the AI bot that tried to break up an NYT journalist’s marriage. His colleague, A. O. Scott, reflects on how it confronts us with a different dystopia from that which we have dreaded so far.

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Sydney is the AI bot that tried to break up an NYT journalist’s marriage. His colleague, A. O. Scott, reflects on how it confronts us with a different dystopia from that which we have dreaded so far.

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When the movies pictured AI, they imagined the wrong disaster

By A.O. Scott

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