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Rise of the Machines: how worried should we be about AI?

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The Role of Profit in Doomsday Predictions

There is often no silver bullet answer to any of these things I do agree with the second group that you spoke about that a lot of the doomsday predictions is profit driven. There are other motivations as well so Jeffrey Hinton I think is a I mean I really respect him as a computer scientist but for Jeffrey Hinton then to come out and say that he feels that there's something more going on under the hood made me get back to thinking about how we each approach problems differently in the world. So pretty much everybody is trying to regulate AI in one way or another and regulate doesn't mean necessarily passing laws and just doing hard regulation means trying to control it in a way that people behave in

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