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How Did Joseph Weisenbaum Go Too Far?
Joseph Weisenbaum retired from MIT, but continued speaking out against the dangers of AI until he died in 2008 at the age of 85. For a while, he became a go-to critic if a TV program needed someone to cast doubt on some new technology. He was an important humanist thinker, a guy way ahead of his time in many ways,. Some people felt like he went too far.