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Editor’s letter

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. We cannot quite know what will happen if a machine exceeds our own intelligence, so we can’t know if we’ll be infinitely helped by it, or ignored by it and sidelined, or conceivably destroyed by it.”
— Stephen Hawking

hat happens when a machine can do something better than we can? Well, it’s simple: when machines outperform us – either physically or intellectually – typically we

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