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The original “AI” con #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-08-13 15:00
Joseph Weisenbab is quite an incredible character and he's particularly fascinated by the American notion of the con. He works for General Electric um who at the time had been tasked with producing a new computer system uh really to save the banking system in America because of the use of paper checks. The quantity of checks was so huge that they couldn't be managed by uh human tellers anymore.So they needed to computerize the system and vice was very much part of that computerization process and he almost ...