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18 June 2019Copyright

UK Justice hails profound promise of AI

The late Steven Hawking described artificial intelligence (AI) as “the best or worst thing to happen to humanity”, while Tesla founder Elon Musk claimed that with the use of AI “we are summoning the demon”.

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