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Designing AI systems that obey our laws and values

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Calling for research on automatic oversight for artificial intelligence systems.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 59, Issue 9
      September 2016
      91 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/2991470
      • Editor:
      • Moshe Y. Vardi
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