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What if Artificial Intelligence Decided How to Allocate Stimulus Money?
New Treasury Department software points the way. But research suggests that it’s impossible to show that an artificial “superintelligence” can be contained.
What if Congress proposes, but AI disposes?
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If, like me, you’re worried about how members of Congress are supposed to vote on a stimulus bill so lengthy and complex that nobody can possibly know all the details, fear not — the Treasury Department will soon be riding to the rescue.
But that scares me a little too.