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How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI (2018) [video]

MIT physicist and AI researcher Max Tegmark discusses the potential for AI to surpass human intelligence within decades, urging proactive measures to ensure beneficial outcomes for humanity.

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Many artificial intelligence researchers expect AI to outsmart humans at all tasks and jobs within decades, enabling a future where we're restricted only by the laws of physics, not the limits of our intelligence. MIT physicist and AI researcher Max Tegmark separates the real opportunities and threats from the myths, describing the concrete steps we should take today to ensure that AI ends up being the best -- rather than worst -- thing to ever happen to humanity.

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