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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

There's a ton of coverage of this story, and deservedly so. And I think it's not a big leap from offering health advice to offering learning support generally. Following the official announcement, the usual angles are covered in the stories - the risk to user data, the argument that you can't automate everything and you'll never replace doctors, the risk to our 'mental instincts', the "it's sinister" argument.

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