This appeared on the CNBC Tv18 website One of the more familiar tropes in Hollywood is that of the intelligent machine, that sees human kind as a threat to its survival and annihilates people. In the film 2001 Space Odyssey, the AI HAL 9000 kills human beings who try to disconnect it. In the popular franchise Terminator, Skynet is a corporation that invents an AI that crushes humanity to create a dystopian future. While we might write these off as the extreme imagination of highly creative and paranoid minds, we need to take the warnings of scientists and technologists slightly
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