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Outline
•Natural Language Communication
–speech formulation, speech recognition, lexical analysis, parsing, disambiguation, discourse understanding
•Bigger Issues
–responsibility in AI, utility functions and the value of human life, neo-Luddism, knowledge as power and intellectual capital, machines emulating people, artificial societies