Reposted by Mister Tea
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
![A Wikipedia page for the inventor of the saxophone - Adolphe Sax. Sax faced many brushes with death. As a child, he once fell from a height of three floors, hit his head on a stone and was believed dead.[6][unreliable source?] At the age of three,[6][unreliable source?] he drank a bowl full of acidic water, mistaking it for milk, and also swallowed a pin.[7] He received serious burns from a gunpowder explosion[6][unreliable source?] and once fell onto a hot stove.[7] Several times he avoided accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from sleeping in a room where varnished furniture was drying. Another time young Sax was struck on the head by a cobblestone and fell into a river, almost dying.[6][unreliable source?]
His mother once said that "he's a child condemned to misfortune; he won't live".[6](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z5baumu3cg7rtdsbs4q6kxn2/bafkreie4srxwr5liuopdrwsyhlxb2sz5g7emlhv7rivldx6pm5rcg2vrni)
