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Donald Trump is a big fan of artificial intelligence. The president has dined with A.I. company executives, downplayed concerns that rogue A.I. agents could one day wipe out humanity, and recently rechristened the technology “super intelligence” because he claims the word artificial “makes it sound fake and it is not fake. It’s actually amazing.”

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