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DARPA also financed the Internet. I think we can expect similar public benefits to come out of this research one day.

Excellent example. But we also failed to build the necessary safeguards to prevent using the Internet as a massive surveillance machine. When will we learn something from our past failures?

Our past track record is pretty uneven, that's for sure. One starting point is here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/AAAI_P...

Thanks, interesting initiative.

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