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Economic motives can ruin artificial intelligence

Stuart Russell: Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

KI: What happens if we create something more intelligent than ourselves, a machine that might do something completely different than we want?
Henning Næs -
COMMENT

The coming technological decade

: Will increased control or surveillance in this decade gradually be left more to algorithms that carry out actions based on so-called "actionable intelligence"?
Truls Lie -
literature

Study, understand and use nature

Amina Khan: Adapt. How humans are tapping into nature's secrets to design and build a better future

: The broad-minded science journalist Amina Khan shows how nature can teach us a thing or two about sustainable technology.
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