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OPEN LETTER RESEARCH PRIORITIES. "Significant parts of the economy, including finance, insurance, actuarial, and many consumer markets, could be susceptible to disruption through the use of AI techniques to learn, model, and predict agent actions." http://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter/ View in LinkedIn

THE DANGERS OF AI OPEN LETTER with over 8,600 signatories. "There is now a broad consensus that AI research is progressing steadily, and that its impact on society is likely to increase. The potential benefits are huge, since everything that civilization has to offer is a product of human intelligence...We recommend expanded research aimed at ensuring that increasingly capable AI systems are robust and beneficial: our AI systems must do what we want them to do. http://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter/ View in LinkedIn

GREATEST EXISTENTIAL THREAT. "Elon Musk called the prospect of artificial intelligence “our greatest existential threat” in a 2014 interview with MIT students at the AeroAstro Centennial Symposium. “I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.” http://observer.com/2015/08/stephen-hawking-elon-musk-and-bill-gates-warn-about-artificial-intelligence/ View in LinkedIn

UNEASE WITH AI. In AI, the Turing Test of 1950 anticipated our state of unease as shown in the following series of quotes from Turing. http://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/test.html View in LinkedIn