Read the following passage and choose the correct options to fill in the blanks. Already, technology has ...1 a significant impact on warfare since the Iraq war began in 2001. Unmanned drones provide sustained surveillance and swift attacks on targets, and small robots are used to disarm improvised explosive devices. The military is currently funding research to produce more autonomous and self-aware robots to diminish the need for human soldiers to risk 2 lives. Founder of Boston Dynamics, Marc Raiber, released a video showing a terrifying six 3 tall 320-lb. humanoid robot named Atlas, running freely in the woods. The company, which was bought by Google in 2013 and receives giant money from the Department of Defense, is working on 4 an even more agile version.The inherent dangers of such powerful technology have inspired several leaders in the scientific 5 to voice concerns about Artificial Intelligence. “Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history,” wrote Stephen Hawking in an op-ed, which appeared in The Independent in 2014. “Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. In the near term, world militaries are considering autonomous-weapon systems that can choose and eliminate targets.” Professor Hawking added in a 2014 interview with BBC, “humans, limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t 6 and would be superseded by A.I.”
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A. community
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C. family
D. locality