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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Reich

The frantic battle over OpenAI shows that money triumphs in the end

‘How would you build an enterprise designed to gain as many of the benefits of AI as possible while avoiding these risks?’
‘How would you build an enterprise designed to gain as many of the benefits of AI as possible while avoiding these risks?’ Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

How do we gain access to artificial intelligence’s huge potential benefits – such as devising new life-saving drugs or finding new ways to teach children – without opening a box of horrors?

If we’re not careful, AI could be a Frankenstein monster. It might eliminate nearly all jobs. It could lead to autonomous warfare.

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