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Worried about a dystopian future in which AI rule the world and humans are enslaved to autonomous technology? So are billionaires (kind of). First it was the Partnership on AI formed by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and IBM. Then came Elon Musk and Peter Thiel's recent investment in $1 billion research body, OpenAI. Now, a new batch of tech founders are throwing money at ethical artificial intelligence and autonomous systems.