Peter Cochrane: AI and the emergent properties of good, bad and evil

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Forget Asimov's 'Three Laws of Robotics', robots will almost certainly go off the rails at some point in the future - but they still won't be as bad as human beings

Almost every day, some kind of Armageddon involving robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) appears to be postulated in the media: malevolent technologies just biding their time before striking t...

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