By Cade Metz and Gregory Schmidt

A.I. developers are “locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one — not even their creators — can understand, predict or reliably control,” according to the letter, which the nonprofit Future of Life Institute released on Wednesday.

Cade Metz

Link to article in The New York Times by Cade Metz

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