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The Critical Question: Will Superintelligence Harm Us?

Intelligence (AI) is changing the world around us. It plays better chess than the best human chess player and reads medical images better than expert radiologists. The current state of AI is good on specific tasks and bad at general duties. But the critical question we should answer is whether AI can exceed human intelligence and what the implications of this would be. When AI is more intelligent

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