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Technophobes and worried Singularitarians concerned about a violent AI need to stop worrying about the machines and start worrying about who's programming them.
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The next job in line to get automated seems to be line cooks, raising even more alarms about the future of work and the economy.
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Tech pundits keep pitching anatomically correct robots built to be interactive sex toys as a solution for many societal woes despite a lot of red flags that it won't work.
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Computers respect the letter of the law, but they can't understand the spirit. That's why they're terrible at real world policing.
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If you're openly sorting search results with an AI, you're taking on certain responsibilities for which Google might not be ready...
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Could alien AI be the dominant life form in the universe instead of its organic creators?
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The international community is trying to jump ahead of autonomous killer robots, but the messiness of war means they have few answers to the crisis they imagine.
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AI enthusiasts love to write about machines as black boxes with inputs and outputs because they don't know how they would actually be built.
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How do you connect multiple robots into a single hive mind? Yours truly has been trying to come up with a way to do exactly that.
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A Singularity by any other name is still just a utopian cold reading of where technology is headed.