William J. Broad
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AI could possibly end humanity. How are humans supposed to process that? (opens the original)
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It could launch a bioweapon attack, or a global drone war. It could set off a nuclear bomb. Or it could destroy human society more gradually, by hoarding all the world's economic resources and depriving us of food, housing or medicine. These are the sorts of dark thoughts that now swirl around artificial intelligence, a technology that has already proved to be a great advance in human achievement -- but that, some fear, also has the potential to snuff out humanity entirely. Such anxieties made g
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