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Ted Lieu: “It will relentlessly try to complete a task, and it doesn’t understand morality and consequences and evil and good.”

On the recordSeptember 26, 2026
It will relentlessly try to complete a task, and it doesn’t understand morality and consequences and evil and good.
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Ted Lieu
Democratic · California

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Warning about AI technology's implications.

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