{"id":23836,"date":"2020-12-16T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/megadeath-is-not-the-only-thing-that-makes-facebook-petrifying#id28650"},"modified":"2020-12-16T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:11:00","slug":"a-new-way-to-think-about-facebook-as-this-centurys-doomsday-machine-quietly-humming-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/a-new-way-to-think-about-facebook-as-this-centurys-doomsday-machine-quietly-humming-along\/","title":{"rendered":"A new way to think about Facebook: as this century\u2019s Doomsday Machine, quietly humming along."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Megadeath is not the only thing that makes the Doomsday Machine petrifying. The real terror is in its autonomy, this idea that it would be programmed to detect a series of environmental inputs, then to act, without human interference.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2020\/12\/facebook-doomsday-machine\/617384\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/megadeath-is-not-the-only-thing-that-makes-facebook-petrifying\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Megadeath is not the only thing that makes the Doomsday Machine petrifying. The real terror is in its autonomy, this idea that it would be programmed to detect a series of environmental inputs, then to act, without human &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23837,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23836\/revisions\/23837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}