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Richard van Oort, Professor of English, University of Victoria

What is intelligence? For millennia, western literature has suggested it may be a liability

Asking if computers will be more intelligent than humans distracts us from grasping the underlying ethical problem with the humans who create and use them. (Shutterstock)

In the age of the Anthropocene, humanity appears poised to destroy itself.

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