How can we prevent AI from becoming a menace?

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Depending on whom you talk to, artificial intelligence will be the most powerful tool ever for unlocking human achievement and making us unimaginably richer and happier, or it will be used to subjugate us and render most human activity redundant and inferior, purposeless, and perhaps even pose an existential threat to everyone, even those who are profiting as big tech plutocrats. There are a few things most people agree on. AI is rapidly advancing. It will be enormously disruptive to people's livelihoods, and the grave risks AI poses

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