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Universities risk surrendering their intellectual autonomy to Silicon Valley’s influence as they rush to adopt AI, one professor says.In an essay for the Civics of Technology Project — an education platform analyzing technology’s societal impact — Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld, an assistant professor of learning technologies at the University of Minnesota,…

One of the world’s leading AI researchers says Big Tech is effectively “playing Russian roulette” with humanity — and using trillions of dollars of investor money to do it.Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence,…