Artificial Intelligence: Our Days (Probably) Aren’t Numbered

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Artificial Intelligence: Our Days (Probably) Aren’t Numbered

Robot foot soldier of Skynet, the apocalyptic artificial superintelligence of the Terminator film franchise.Maybe it’s a law of history: every innovation faces opposition. The early nineteenth-century Luddites wrecked textile machinery because it took their jobs. Our innate suspicion extends to trade, too, which is, after all, just another technology for turning one thing into another. Apartheid-era white South Africans opposed efforts to modify…