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Elon Musk’s AI predictions should terrify us

How will AI destroy humanity? Will it simply go house to house in robot form, slaughtering us where it finds us? Or will it instead discover that a certain property of our livers or spleens is the most cost-effective form of lubrication for one of its less important robotic joints, and harvest us for that