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The headlines in early January didn’t mince words, and all were variations on one theme: researchers think there’s a 5 percent chance artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity.That was the sobering finding of  a paper posted on the preprint server arXiv.org. In it, the authors reported the results of a survey of 2,778 researchers who had presented and published work at high-profile AI research conferences and journals—the biggest such poll to date in a once-obscure field that has suddenly found itself navigating…