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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of writing a check on a bank account in an amount in excess of actual funds on deposit in the account and then depositing that check in a second account at a different bank to create a spurious deposit there, allowing checks to be drawn, or credit secured, based on the second account, until the fraud is discovered.
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We should think of AI futurism as a sophisticated form of check kiting — cashing a check today and hoping the money will be in the account later.
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