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Meet the scientist teaching AI to police human speech

Alexis Conneau’s work has helped Facebook and Google build artificial intelligence systems that can understand dozens of languages with startling accuracy. But researchers like him also stand at the center of a battle over the technology’s risk of prejudice, censorship and abuse.
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