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Professor Amy Webb is featured in a story about the Westworld panel at San Diego Comic-Con, which she moderated, and her work as a futurist

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Excerpt from Los Angeles Times --"'A while back, Google unveiled AutoML, a neural net that can build its own "children" to perform certain tasks,' she said. '"Westworld" spins out these ‘what-if’ scenarios many, many degrees — which is exactly what we do as futurists. We should all be asking what happens when just a few people build AI systems that will in turn build their own progeny.'"

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