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"[An artificially intelligent computer] could be very good, it could be very bad, it could be somewhere in between. Certainly we would hope that it would be friendly to human beings. At the same time, I dont think you'd want to be known as one of the human beings that is against computers and makes a living being against computers. So probably at the margins it would be prudent not to make a name for yourself as a anti- technological human being just as these computers are coming onto the scene."