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Letter: Artificial intelligence knows no better

Published 1 February 2017

From Eleanor Crosby, Gaven, Queensland, Australia

Allan Paxton suggests that “super-AI will surely inject a sorely needed mega-dose of rationalism into human affairs, since it will be unbound by (often psychotic) human bias” (Letters, 7 January). I beg to differ. Any super-AI will unavoidably have biases in the data on which it was trained built into it.

Issue no. 3111 published 4 February 2017

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