But if social networking was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, artificial intelligence is more like a wolf clothed as a horseman of the apocalypse.
certainly poses problems and challenges that call for government action, the apocalyptic concerns — be they mass unemployment from automation or a superintelligent A.I.
If doing too little, too late with social media was a mistake, we now need to be wary of taking premature government action that fails to address concrete harms.
The White House is not wrong to want standardized testing of A.I.
systems to keep the government apprised of safety tests, and also to have the secretary of labor study the risks of and remedies for A.I.
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Stanley Kubrick’s, —, that’s
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