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Comment by Rodney Brooks

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Roboticist; former MIT CSAIL director
Some people get all worked up about it [...] but they're not even closed to being poorly intelligent yet.
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AI Verified WBUR’s June 1, 2016 Radio Boston page for this interview attributes the line to Rodney Brooks in the section about worries over future robots. The page’s highlighted quote matches the submitted wording with a faithful omission marked by [...], and it even uses the same unusual phrase, “closed to being poorly intelligent yet,” on the source page itself. ([wbur.org](https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2016/06/01/rodney-brooks)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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