The Cuckoo’s Egg

Clifford Stoll

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• The Ezra Klein Show · The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control | The Ezra Klein Show · at 1:08:23 · 2026-08-18

  “It's uh from 1989. It's about one of the first big hacks um that that happened. written by the astronomer who was working at Lawrence National Lab and noticed uh 75 cents discrepancy in his computing bill.”Recommended

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