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AI dangers: imagined and real

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Arguing against the arguments for the concept of the singularity.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 2
      February 2017
      106 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3042068
      • Editor:
      • Moshe Y. Vardi
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