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“Artificial intelligence, in the forms that it already exists, has had a noticeable effect on society, and there are reasons to expect it to have enormous effects in the future,” said Dewey. “It could play a role in human extinction, persistent inequality, or other existential risks … If we understand the risks better, we can make better decisions to avoid them or mitigate the damage.”It could eventually take over resources that we depend on to stay alive, or it could consider us enough of a danger to its task completion that it decides the best course is to remove us from the picture.
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