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title: "‘A certain danger lurks there’: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI"
date: "2023-07-28T14:55-08:00"
description: "Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans"
link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai
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