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The dark side of artificial intelligence, plus other letters to the editor for May 4: 'Potential human use of AI as a tool for manipulating other humans is far too dangerous to be ignored.'

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Perils of AI Re “AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google as he warns of technology’s dangers” (May 2): Geoff Hinton is one of the most progressive and ethical scientists I know, and I applaud him for his decision to resign from Google. Geoff is in fact a founder of the deep AI field. One of the obvious concerns with AI is the replacement of many routine white-collar jobs. But the much deeper concern results from the fact that AI can analyze masses of human data, both writing and images, and detect very subtle correlations that transcend human analytic ability. This…

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