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Do I fear that such an artificial intelligence might threaten all of humanity?
All of these problems which threaten to wipe us out are by their very nature globalized problems.
"You should aim to be successful, but not too successful, otherwise you would threaten the man."
Public speaking can threaten it.
Yet his path is filled with villains who would doubt his determination, who would threaten those he loves, threaten his life choices.
Despite being fragile, a newly molted shrimp is actually more likely to threaten intruders, spreading the large limbs it usually uses to strike or stab its opponents.
The machines that will threaten workers in the future are really nothing like those cars and trucks and tractors that displaced horses.
Until one day, running in the streets with a friend, it hit me: the same cars, factories, power plants whose emissions are wrecking our climate over time also release harmful, local pollutants that threaten our health right here and right now.
These antibiotics are then mutating into superbugs that threaten to render antibiotics obsolete within all of our lifetimes.
The chieftains immediately begin to argue and threaten each other.
For I never had an inkling that perhaps the things I do might someday, somehow threaten you.
And if we really want to get out of this economic mess, if we really want high performance on those definitional tasks of the 21st century, the solution is not to do more of the wrong things, to entice people with a sweeter carrot, or threaten them with a sharper stick.
For example, probably a lot of American Christians don't think of themselves as being in a non-zero-sum relationship with Muslims halfway around the world, but they really are, because if these Muslims become happier and happier with their place in the world and feel that they have a place in it, that's good for Americans, because there will be fewer terrorists to threaten American security.
We are actually the first species on Earth to be so prolific to actually threaten our own survival.
This time, not only did my collectors disappear, the political activists decided to ban me and to threaten me and to forbid me from showing.
Some day, perhaps soon, we'll have a virus that is going to threaten all of us.
Endemic livestock diseases, some of them transmissible to humans, threaten not only livestock producers in those poor countries, but all human health across all countries.
This is even more disappointing since I heard several time that this movie could be considered as a reaction to all the big American blockbusters, which are considered to be a threaten to the French exception by those who just can't admit they should turn to another job.
The main characters are involved in one constant stand-off where they threaten each other, every five minutes or less.
After pestering with the old man, three hillbillys also do not take kindly to their arrival as they approach their car and threaten them to leave.
All is not well in Washington state and Oregon; volcanic eruptions and earthquakes threaten to drop most of the Pacific Rim in the ocean.
Killing anyone who tries to threaten or harm her or any others.
This particular film genre has gone from a few steamy, but brief sex scenes and fleeting glimpses of female full frontal nudity to extended sex scenes that occasionally threaten to venture into the realm of hardcore.
He doesn't threaten him, he doesn't lie to him, he doesn't laugh at him, but he tortures him with his unbearable friendliness right up to the last moment.
In this case, the discovery of a new underwater species that could threaten the planet's ecology.
This movie was made in 1938 due to the threaten of the German to Russia, in a pre-Second World War period.
Despite a change of venue, the film still deals with a ruthless businessman nicknamed Shark who muscles in on loan companies, using stooges to threaten them in order to get their signatures.
Three giant sabretooth tigers(..created in a laboratory from mitochondrial DNA, a "genetic breakthrough" derived from fossil material)are on the rampage accidentally set free through a series of events(such as a computer geek's introduced virus in order to unlock security measures keeping the resort novelty shops closed during construction & a security guard's leaving a gate open while searching for the missing page from a porn mag that flew away in the breeze)that threaten the lives of those it comes in contact with.
Now this will in turn threaten to reveal his secret.
Jacinto Molina plays Gilles de Lancre and seems to have little issue with having people put to death when he thinks they threaten his position or when he needs virgins for their blood.
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