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As the world's most powerful computer systems begin to embrace artificial intelligence in earnest, using smart algorithms to increase efficiency and speed, the potential damage that a "rogue" AI could cause continues to grow. Facebook engineers were forced to pull the plug on one of the company's AI systems after its bots began communicating with each other in a completely new language which humans simply couldn't decipher. Without being able to understand how or why the bots were communicating, Facebook had no choice but to shut down the system. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is a huge proponent of artificial intelligence, and has even clashed with other tech leaders like Elon Musk over his embrace of AI and apparent lack of concern over the theoretical dangers intelligent computers could pose to humanity.