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Express.co.uk: Vladimir Putin orders students to ‘master artificial intelligence so Russia can rule the world’

By Express.co.uk.

Published Sept. 3, 2017. Updated Sept. 3 at 5:58 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the All-Russian open lesson "Russia Heading towards the Future" as part of the Projectoriya national forum of vocational navigation held at the Arena 200 culture and sports complex in Yaroslavl some 250 km outside Moscow on Sept. 1.

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A heated debate is currently underway within the scientific community about AI, with some claiming that it can be used to benefit humanity, while others claim it could lead to the end of modern civilisation.

South African businessman and SpaceX leader Elon Musk has been one of the more outspoken critics of AI, describing it as the “biggest risk we face as a civilisation.”