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One Bet Two Faces

From Mystifying Artificial Intelligence

A retro magazine illustration of a single glowing seed or core splitting into two branching paths, one rising into radiant light, one descending into cold dark, both growing from the same root.
The optimists and the doomers disagree about the destination, abundance or extinction, while sharing the premise that the thing wakes up. One bet, two faces. Author's illustration.