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Time is running out to tackle the dangers posed by AI

While we can all appreciate the benefits of AI, it is developing faster than anyone imagined, with no consensus on what constitutes acceptable risk

Mitchell Reiss
Automated warfare carried out by unmanned drones – one of many dangers posed by AI. Getty Images
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Is this what it felt like in the months before August 1914? Or during the years leading up to September 1939? The discussion around artificial intelligence produces a deep foreboding that we are in the grip of forces largely beyond our control.

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