Rob Brooks receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Some of the leading brains behind generative AI have warned about the risk of artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity, if ...

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Rob Brooks receives funding from the Australian Research Council. What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied ...

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