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AI in Australia – Don’t Let Caution Get in the Way of Potential
Aug 2, 2019 | 15 min
Introduction
AI has united IT industry visionaries and adversaries alike, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates with their words of caution as to its ultimate capabilities.
Renowned scientist, the late Professor Stephen Hawking, went even further. He speculated that ‘the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of humans’!
The apprehension being expressed by Musk, Gates, Bezos and Hawkins is primarily to do with the integration of AI into weaponry and the potential for exploitation by nefarious sources.
As Bill Gates observed, the same fears have been applied to nuclear power for the last seventy…