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Bernie Sanders: “There is now a legitimate fear that artificial general…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:22

Their attention spans are worse, significantly worse. I worry very much what used to be science fiction that the robot that the computers will take over There is now a legitimate fear that artificial general intelligence will not only become smarter than human beings, they'll be able to communicate with each other independent of humanity. And the implications of that bottom line is I'm not a Luddite and we have got to make sure though, that AI and robotics work for working people, not just to make these billionaires even richer. (05:22–05:37)

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Asserts a fear that artificial general intelligence will surpass human intelligence and communicate independently.

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