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Can artificial intelligence think and feel like a human being? Does it have a soul? Can it make moral decisions?\u00a0Based on what?\u00a0We speak with scientists and theologians at MIT, Yale, Georgetown, and Catholic University about the benefits and risks of AI and the fear of losing human control of technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Artificial intelligence is the ultimate powerful technology, because if we ever succeed in making machines that are much smarter than us and keep amplifying their own intelligence, there\u2019s basically no limit to how much we can figure out with their help. There’s also no limit to the extent we could mess up,” warns MIT physicist Max Tegmark. 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