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Bernie Sanders: “The fear is that if AI becomes smarter, it may no longer be…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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The fear is, and this is not Bernie Sanders, this is people who helped develop this technology that it is not a question of if, just the question of when AI becomes smarter than human beings. Got it? The fear is that if AI becomes smarter, it may no longer be able to be subjected to human control. And they used to write crazy films about this. You know how the, the, the computer says, sorry, you no longer telling me what to do, I'm going tell you what I want to do. (16:46–16:56)

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