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Artificial intelligence? Maybe we need artificial stupidity instead. In order to avoid an apocalyptic scenario where machines take over the world, some are suggesting we should limit AI to human-level intelligence.

At least then we’ll stand a fighting chance, says Roman Yampolskiy at the University of Louisville, USA.

Although artificial general intelligences – AIs that can perform any task that a human brain can – do not yet exist, Yampolskiy thinks planning how to limit their computational abilities and make them behave in ways that are familiar to humans may …