When armies go to war today, as in Ukraine, artificial intelligence helps with targeted killings. When doctors fight cancer today, artificial intelligence helps with precise diagnosis. If a surveillance state wants to screen its citizens, artificial intelligence provides the images and coordinates. If you give an artificial intelligence-powered image generator the command: “Draw me a picture of my house in the style of Vincent van Gogh,” you get exactly this in seconds – so amazingly good, you could mistake it for an original.

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