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From: trost@reed.UUCP (Bill Trost)
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Subject: Re: Weizenbaum keynote address at U of Waterloo (long)
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Date: Sun, 2-Nov-86 21:48:23 EST
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In article <2689@watdcsu.UUCP> brewster@watdcsu.UUCP (dave brewer,  SD Eng, PAMI ) writes:
>
>The main question that I see arising from the talks is : is it time
>to consider banning, halting, slowing, or otherwise rethinking 
>certain AI or technical adventures, such as machine vision, as was
>done in the area of recombinant DNA.

Somehow, I don't think that banning machine vision makes much sense.  It
seems that it would be similar to banning automatic transmissions because
you can use them to make tanks.  The device itself is not the hazard (as it
is in genetic research) -- it is the application.
-- 
Bill Trost, tektronix!reed!trost
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