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Essential (mostly neglected) questions and answers about artificial intelligence.

Worries about Artificial Intelligence are no longer just the province or science fiction (SF) or speculative futurism. Sober appraisals list potential dangers arising from predatory resource consumption to AI harnessed into destructive competition between human nations and institutions. Many SF tale...

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Published in:Neohelicon Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 429 - 450
Main Author: Brin, David
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2022
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence
Ethics
Robotics
Futurism (Literary movement)
Societies
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