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Brian May on why he’s changed his mind on AI: “We have to resist. We have to control it very, very seriously and very quickly"

September 16

Brian May has said that he has “changed his mind” about AI – now he’s firmly in the anti camp. In an interview with Absolute Radio, the Queen guitarist said that at first he thought that it was “just like the Industrial

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