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Don’t blame us for AI’s threat to humanity, we’re just the technologists
Leaders in AI have taken time off from inventing something that could wipe out all human life to warn us about it.
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AI chatbots are already falsifying information and its inventors are not quite sure why.
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Robert Shrimsley
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So here’s a thought. Instead of pushing ahead with a technology that its leading inventors say could soon have the power to kill humans, how about not pushing ahead with it?
This radical notion is prompted by a warning from the man setting up the British prime minister’s artificial intelligence (AI) task force.