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Microsoft Is Talking About The AI Risks Everyone Would Rather Ignore

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Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing seems impressive, but how will we make sure it isn’t used for nefarious purposes? Here’s what Microsoft had to say.
Microsoft’s most recent live event went into great detail on the future of AI on the company’s products. As covered by The Verge’s liveblog of the event (for unknown reasons, Microsoft elected not to livestream) the company displayed ways AI tools in Windows and Bing could improve everything from home cooking to web design. Unlike many other companies, however, Microsoft also addressed the potentially negative impacts of AI as a widely available tool.
Concerns about AI’s outcome are widespread among technically savvy users. With even experts suggesting that true self-aware machine intelligence could exist within the next generation or two, people are understandably concerned about AI’s potential for destruction, both as a tool and as a self-directed agency.
As one of the world’s foremost software companies, Microsoft is necessarily at the forefront of these concerns.

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