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What Is a Human in the AI Age?

Andy Kelly/Unsplash) Few if any technologies in history have spawned such wildly different predictions as artificial intelligence. In a single week, you might hear one expert prophesy AI as the end of humanity, another herald it as the solution to all scarcity, and a third dismiss it as overhyped nonsense.

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Andy Kelly/Unsplash) Few if any technologies in history have spawned such wildly different predictions as artificial intelligence.

In a single week, you might hear one expert prophesy AI as the end of humanity, another herald it as the solution to all scarcity, and a third dismiss it as overhyped nonsense.

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Andy Kelly/Unsplash) Few if any technologies in history have spawned such wildly different predictions as artificial intelligence. In a single week, you might hear one expert prophesy AI as the end of humanity, another herald it as the solution to all scarcity, and a third dismiss it as overhyped nonsense.

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