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Technology

Jul. 6, 2023

Altered intelligence: will it make us better, worse or extinct?

It has been said the most nightmarish scenario one can imagine with AI and robotics is a world where robots have become so powerful that they are able to control or manipulate humans without their knowledge.

A. Marco Turk

Emeritus Professor
CSU Dominguez Hills

Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com

A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.

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While it is not an everyday warning concerning the necessity to mitigate the dangers of AI (artificial intelligence) that could cause human extinction, there is an effort now to talk about the urgent risks surrounding it.

In a one-sentence statement released by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) - a San Francisco-based nonprofit research and field-building nonprofit organization whose mission is to "promote reliability and safety in artifici...

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