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What are the benefits, and the possible dangers, of artificial intelligence? Are computers and thinking machines a huge help to humankind's daily life or a threat to our civilization? Cynthia Breazeal of MIT's Media Lab and Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research explore the excitement, and the anxiety, about artificial intelligence and the way it may change our world. 

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What are the benefits, and the possible dangers, of artificial intelligence? Are computers and thinking machines a huge help to humankind's daily life or a threat to our civilization? Cynthia Breazeal of MIT's Media Lab and  Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research explore the excitement,and the anxiety, about artificial intelligence and the way it may change our world.

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