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I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.

Avi Rubin

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Avi Rubin
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: November 8
Engineer
University Professor
Manhattan
Kansas
Aviel David Rubin
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