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<h1 style="text-align: center;">The AI threat isn't skynet it's the end of the middle class</h1>
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<li>] by Cade Metz @ wired.com - Metz writes about the recent gathering of AI researchers and their concerns about the impact of AI on the economy and the future.&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-threat-isnt-skynet-end-middle-class/" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-threat-isnt-skynet-end-middle-class/</a></li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2016-02-12</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;IN FEBRUARY 1975, a group of geneticists gathered in a tiny town on the central coast of California to decide if their work would bring about the end of the world.&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;So, they descended on a coastal retreat called Asilomar, a name that became synonymous with the guidelines they laid down at this meeting&mdash;a strict ethical framework meant to ensure that biotechnology didn&rsquo;t unleash the apocalypse.</li>
<li>] In 2017-01, another group of scientists gathered at Asilomar to consider a similar problem.the world&rsquo;s top artificial intelligence researchers walked down the same beachside paths as they discussed their&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/11/google-facebook-microsoft-remaking-around-ai/" target="_blank">rapidly accelerating field</a>&nbsp;and the role it will play in the fate of humanity.</li>
<li>] It was a private conference&mdash;the enormity of the subject deserves some privacy&mdash;but in recent days, organizers released&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rCCy3FQ-GItDimSR9lhzw" target="_blank">several videos</a>&nbsp;from the conference talks, and some participants have been willing to discuss their experience, shedding some light on the way AI researchers view the threat of their own field.</li>
<li>] at the end of the month, the conference organizers unveiled a set of guidelines, signed by attendees and other AI luminaries, that aim to prevent this possible dystopia.&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;But the researchers at Asilomar were also concerned with more immediate matters: the effect of AI on the economy.&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;At a time when the Trump administration is promising to make America great again by restoring old-school manufacturing jobs, AI researchers aren&rsquo;t taking him too seriously. They know that these jobs are never coming back, thanks in no small part to their own research, which will eliminate so many other kinds of jobs in the years to come, as well. At Asilomar, they looked at the real US economy, the real reasons for the &ldquo;hollowing out&rdquo; of the middle class. The problem isn&rsquo;t immigration&mdash;far from it. The problem isn&rsquo;t offshoring or taxes or regulation. It&rsquo;s technology.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;In the end, no one left Asilomar with a sure way of preventing economic upheaval. &ldquo;Anyone making confident predictions about anything having to do with the future of artificial intelligence is either kidding you or kidding themselves,&rdquo; McAfee says.&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] SRC = best-of-HN-2017-02-10, comments</li>
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