Faced with fears of mass unemployment and even societal destruction, we are currently plunged into an AI panic. But scientists and popular culture have been discussing the impact and risks of artificial intelligence for decades. In 1964, Gilbert Burck of Fortune spoke with prominent computer scientists to get their predictions about what AI would be capable of in the years to come. So we took a look at this 60-year-old article to see what they got right and wrong.

This article was originally reported by Jeremy Kahn, AI editor of Fortune and author of Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mastering-AI/Jeremy-Kahn/ 9781668053324.

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