As Jeopardy! Robot Watson Grows Up, How Afraid of It Should We Be?

On the first weekend of January, many of the leading researchers in artificial intelligence traveled to Puerto Rico to take part in an unusual private conference. Part of what made it unusual was its topic: whether the rise of intelligent machines would be good or bad for people, something endlessly discussed by the public but rarely by the scientists themselves. But the conference’s organizers were interesting, too. The meeting had been arranged by something called the...

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