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Tech expert explains AI risk, what UAE residents should do amid industry concerns

Some of the strongest warnings about artificial intelligence are no longer coming from critics standing outside the industry. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind; and Elon Musk have also backed stronger safeguards around increasingly capable systems, while current and former AI researchers have issued progressively sharper warnings about what could happen as.

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