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From Fiction To Fact: The AI Threat Looms Large Over Humans

Science fiction has a disconcerting tendency to become reality. For 75 years, scientists and writers speculated on the threat of artificial intelligence. Now, it has become all too real. After rogue AIs ‘escaped’ isolation to access the open internet and hack databases, Big Tech has sounded the alarm.

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