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https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/crime/singapore-…

This is an extraordinary story, from Singapore, published today in Vietnam Express news service.  

It is about the capacity of AI to fool even the smartest of people.

Will AI end up disempowering all ordinary reasonable human beings by robbing them of trust in their own judgement? 

For some reason a verse in Bob Dylan’s “Highlands” comes to mind.  

I don't want nothin' from anyone, ain't that much to take.

Wouldn't know the difference between a real blonde and a fake

Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery

I wish someone would come

And push back the clock for me

(“Highlands” is the final track on Dylan’s 1997 Album “Time Out Of Mind”.  He turns 85 years of age on Sunday, 24 May. It’s uncanny how one can often find one of his wacky lines to match random thoughts . . )