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This is Scientific American's Sixty-Second-Science, I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute?With every individual and every technology we have a lot of intended benefits and intended consequences. Simultaneously¹, we have many unintended consequences.

Subra Suresh, an engneer by training is president of Carnegie Mellon university and former director of the national science foundation. He spoke² on January 23rd at the world economic forum³ in Davos Stwitzerland to Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina.

We have also been hearing some critics and concerns about what's going to happen as machines go more and more intelligent.

As machines become more and more sophiscated, we have to be very careful issues of privacy, confident ?, intellecutal property. If people from one discipline and one part of the world go on mind private information from aonther part of the world, either legally or illegally, what the consequences are, this will be worried seen leak of information. Because breaches⁴ of cyber security. And I think those kinds of issues are going to be there. But in next sense, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are no different from any other new wave of technology. There has the potential to be used as well as abused.

For more from Subra Suresh, check out our website, www.scientificamerican.com for upcoming edition of the science stock podcast. Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's Sixty-Second-Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.

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1 simultaneously
adv.同时发生地，同时进行地
参考例句：
The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。 The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。

2 spoke
n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说
参考例句：
They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。 The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 forum
n.论坛，讨论会
参考例句：
They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。 The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

4 breaches
破坏( breach的名词复数 )；破裂；缺口；违背
参考例句：
He imposed heavy penalties for breaches of oath or pledges. 他对违反誓言和保证的行为给予严厉的惩罚。 This renders all breaches of morality before marriage very uncommon. 这样一来，婚前败坏道德的事就少见了。