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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

Public safety: Police are using artificial intelligence to collect and analyse huge volumes of data in order to spot patterns, uncover new leads, and solve criminal investigations (Revell, 2017). Conducting research for the School of Information Systems, she is invested in obtaining a career that advances information technologies.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

The good news is that natural disasters themselves, which Munich Re says caused $330 billion in economic losses globally in 2017, provide a template for how to mitigate the growing and catastrophic risk posed by AI. Our growing reliance on so many intelligent, connected devices is opening up the possibility of global-scale shutdowns.