“The most pragmatic position is to think of A.I. as a tool, not a creature. My attitude doesn’t eliminate the possibility of peril: however we think about it, we can still design and operate our new tech badly, in ways that can hurt us or even lead to our extinction.”
There Is No A.I.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai
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