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In today's recessionary economy, many are worried about job security, but are you worried that some computer or intelligent machine might someday take away your job? Or perhaps completely displace humans? A recent article in the New York Times notes that a group of researchers who met at the Asilomar conference center in California discussed just such possibilities. There's wide debate about whether the rapid technological advances represent promise or a threat, with noted inventor Raymond Kurzweil being one prominent personality lining up on the side of the former, while William Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, takes the other side.
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