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This week, Philip Ball assesses the anxiety about AI - and provides some reassurance; and Jane Robinson on Emily Davies, the woman who founded Girton College, Cambridge.
'Moral AI: And how we get there', by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer
'The AI Mirror: How to reclaim our humanity in an age of machine thinking', by Shannon Vallor
'Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to our humanity in an age of social robots', by Eve Herold
'The Atomic Human: Understanding ourselves in the Age of AI', by Neil D. Lawrence
'Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement', by John Hendry
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