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Artificial Intelligence: is the Promise Worth the Peril?
Artificial intelligence might be the death of humanity. That’s from no less an authority than Stephen Hawking—the world’s best-known physicist. How do Americans feel about science fiction made real? Will developers agree not to go too far before it’s too late?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenArtificial intelligence might be the death of humanity. That’s from no less an authority than Stephen Hawking—the world’s best-known physicist. Other scientists are heeding his warning that programs could outsmart their programmers—with unintended consequences that can’t be predicted. Massive investment by Google, Facebook and others, they say, is making that much more likely to happen, much sooner, than anybody expected. How do Americans feel about science fiction made real? Will developers agree not to go too far before it’s too late?
Also, reintroducing an overlooked civil rights leader…
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3 storiesHighway Trust Fund
Congress and the "Highway Trust Fund" a federal fund that currently finances over 100,000 projects across the country. How can the funds be replenished to keep the construction projects going?
Read the story8 minArtificial intelligence on the Loose!
Artificial intelligence might be the death of humanity. That’s from no less an authority than Stephen Hawking, the world’s best-known physicist. Other scientists are heeding his warning that programs could outsmart their programmers with unintended consequences that can’t be predicted.
Read the story34 minReintroducing an Overlooked Civil Rights Leader
Stokely Carmichael was a powerful civil rights leader in the 1960’s who became a black nationalist before leaving this country for Africa. His biographer says he was as influential as Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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