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Absolutely, that’s without any doubt.

There’s a difference though. The “cool” Terminator Skynet pursues its own goals, and wasn’t programmed by humans to kill. The “boring” insurance-rejecting Skynet is explicitly programmed to reject insurance claims by other humans, unfortunately.

So still, no need to worry about our AI overlords, worry about people running the AI systems.



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