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The Pentagon’s $2 billion gamble on artificial intelligence

By Jamie McIntyre
Published October 16, 2018 4:00am ET
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The Pentagon’s $2 billion gamble on artificial intelligence
It’s the chilling plot line to every science fiction movie about robots in the future: Once they start thinking for themselves, humanity is doomed. Think of the HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” or the replicants in “Blade Runner,” or the hosts in “Westworld.” These days the Pentagon is doing a lot of thinking […]

It’s the chilling plot line to every science fiction movie about robots in the future: Once they start thinking for themselves, humanity is doomed.

Think of the HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” or the replicants in “Blade Runner,” or the hosts in “Westworld.”

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