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How to usher in an AI future with gain rather than pain

The consent of the people will be needed if the machine learning revolution is to succeed, says Paul Marks

By Paul Marks

27 April 2017

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How should we move forward in harmony with AI?

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Jack Ma, head of Chinese internet retail giant Alibaba, is the latest tech visionary to suggest AI will harm society. He’s .

His warnings follow those of luminaries including Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, for AI research to focus on beneficial applications and to be made robust against runaway failures that shut down electricity grids or even lead to some kind of .

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