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What an artificial intelligence researcher fears about AI

  • Written by Arend Hintze, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology & Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
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As an artificial intelligence researcher, I often come across the idea that many people are afraid of what AI might bring. It’s perhaps unsurprising, given both history and the entertainment industry, that we might be afraid of a cybernetic takeover that forces us to live locked away,...

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