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Does regulating artificial intelligence save humanity or just stifle innovation?

  • Written by Jeremy Straub, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University
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Some people are afraid that heavily armed artificially intelligent robots might take over the world, enslaving humanity – or perhaps exterminating us. These people, including tech-industry billionaire Elon Musk and eminent physicist Stephen...

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