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Will a superintelligent system in the near future know everything and tell us how to live?

This article by Dirk Helbing appeared first in German on November 25, 2017, in the newspaper “Schweiz am Sonntag” under the URL https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/kommentare-aaz/geburt-eines-digitalen-gottes-131939639

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  1. ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Dirk Helbing

  2. TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands

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  3. Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria

    Dirk Helbing

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Helbing, D. (2019). The Birth of a Digital God. In: Helbing, D. (eds) Towards Digital Enlightenment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90869-4_9

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