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Parents confront a new fear: Could AI end humanity before their kids grow up?

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Molly Kinder saw the apocalyptic warnings about artificial intelligence while walking home from dropping her children off at elementary school. Scrolling through social media posts where AI insiders were issuing dire claims that the technology could cause human extinction, she stopped dead in her tracks just a block from the doorway where she had just hugged her four-year-old goodbye.

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