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Will AI make you obsolete?

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Artificial intelligence is coming - and these researchers think that the rise of the machines might actually help us celebrate what's uniquely human.

On the coming brave new world.

Kai-Fu Lee + Oren Etzioni, October 2nd 2018

You’ve been hearing since the 80s that robots might be coming for your job. KUOW producer Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong got that message delivered personally by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China, CEO of Sinovation Ventures, and author of the new book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. With producing on the way out, she turned her hand to hosting, and spoke to Kai-Fu along Oren Etzioni of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

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