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Too dangerous to release AI research

16:40 pm on 15 February 2019

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The creators of a new advanced artificial intelligence system have decided not to release the research to the public as it may be too dangerous.

Open AI, a non-proft research company backed by Elon Musk, created the new AI model - a text generator - which can write fake news stories.

We speak to tech commentator Paul Brislen about how this technology could be misused.