J. Robert Oppenheimer is remembered for helping to build the atomic bomb, but his most important legacy for the age of AI is his thinking about how to protect humanity from technological dangers
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After helping invent the atomic bomb, the physicist spent decades thinking about how to preserve civilization from technological dangers, offering crucial lessons for the age of AIAlfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/ShutterstockFrom the moment the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945 until his death in 1967, J. Robert Oppenheimer was perhaps the most recognizable physicist on the planet.
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