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Re:FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project by Daniel_Newby on Friday September 07, 2012 @04:38PM (#4491076)
Once you can download an isotope separator or a plague kit, privacy concerns become moot. The societies not running under total AI supervision will simply go extinct. So the question is what kind of supervised society do you want?
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Re:FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project by lifeisstillgood on Friday September 07, 2012 @06:11PM (#4491452) 

  Isotope seperator - plague kit
I assume this is downloading nuclear bombs or viruses? And that means that we need AI to monitor us constantly in case some idiot kills everyone?
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Re:FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project by Daniel_Newby on Friday September 07, 2012 @07:25PM (#4491687)
Yes. If your household fabricator can make arbitrary machinery, you can say "Make me a uranium-235 enricher."
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Re:FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project by thornofmight on Monday September 10, 2012 @03:20PM (#4501642)
Any sci-fi book recommendations where I can read about this sort of thing?
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