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过去的60年里，人工智能已经慢慢渗透到我们的日常生活中，如社交媒体，Netflix,无人驾驶汽车和人形机器人等, 使我们在与世界互动的方式上发生了*大变化。人类会被AI取代吗？人工智能是否可以改善社会和人类的发展？ The past sixty years have witnessed astonishing growth in the field of artifical intelligence. From social media to Netflix, AI has already infiltrated our daily lives, while driverless cars and humanoid robots are starting to make seismic shifts in the ways we interact with our world. Are we on the threshold of an AI-dominated reality? How will the ethics of this expanding field be enforced in practice? Will humans be superseded by AI? This astute and disquieting review, replete with astonishing up-to-the-minute imagery a trademark of the Big Idea series evaluates whether AI can transform society and humanity for the better or whether its enormous capability will bring about a dystopian AI-controlled future for t