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 Photograph: Robert Pratta/Reuters Artificial intelligence (AI) The Observer Artificial intelligence will not turn into a Frankenstein's monster The doomsayers believe that humanity will be overwhelmed by creating machines that – like Terminator's Skynet – become ever-more clever and reach a singularity.
 They're wrong Alan Winfield Sun 10 Aug ‘14 00.
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 It's a Thing for techno-utopians: wealthy middle-aged men who regard the singularity as their best chance of immortality.
 They are Singularitarians, some seemingly prepared to go to extremes to stay alive for long enough to benefit from a benevolent super-artificial intelligence – a man-made god that grants transcendence.
 And it's a thing for the doomsayers, the techno-dystopians.