SAN FRANCISCO — There are many complicated issues that undoubtedly weigh on the mind of California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar. But the notion that super-intelligent robots might one day destroy humanity is apparently not one of them.
In a far-ranging panel discussion about artificial intelligence and the law at the annual Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Cuéllar was critical of a book by philosopher Nick Bostrom about the existential threat to humanity posed by self-aware machines. But the justice also laid out what he said were the promises and risks presented by AI, in the realm of law and beyond.
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