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Cambridge University has set up a new centre for artificial intelligence (AI) and technology which aims to ensure its rapid advancements benefit humanity.

"Previous waves of technological transformation helped us thrive as a species, with higher incomes and life expectancy, and more people alive than ever before.

"The last industrial revolution, for example, fuelled the rise of communism and fascism, colonial expansion and the greenhouse gases that now threaten the biosphere.

"Despite dramatic technological advancements, there are many things we find it hard to imagine changing, such as social and political systems, and - in somewhere like the UK - relative peace and prosperity," said Dr Cave.

"But the lesson of history is that technology can very easily provoke huge instability, including the collapse of democracy and all-out war.

The Institute for Technology and Humanity brings three Cambridge centres together under one banner and will contain historians and philosophers as well as computer scientists and robotics experts.

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