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Re:What you wanted to know about AI by NhanH on Monday March 16, 2015 @11:57AM (#9212179)
In the analogy of nuclear bomb, it's more likely than not a public awareness of nuclear power would have prevented nuclear plant (the good thing), nuclear bomb (the bad thing) is extremely unlikely to not be developed anyway.
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Re:What you wanted to know about AI by codezero on Monday March 16, 2015 @02:21PM (#9213240)
Maybe, it's hard to know for sure, just like it's hard to know now :)

I think that had nuclear physics been more obvious 50-200 years earlier, it may have lead to a lot more practical private-sector development. In the case of power generation, this is seriously beneficial.

How will private-sector AI turn out? Will they boot up sentient AIs in Docker, then discard them? Is that OK? Who even knows?

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