If I had ever been successful in outsmarting the magic, I would have been crushed.

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The screens behind the stage turn black-and-white, revealing a video of Jackson outsmarting a series of detectives as they try to track him down.

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The jobs number is a useful reminder that while there are smart economists inside and outside the Federal Reserve, Mr. Market is capable of outsmarting them all.

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Instead, it's typically a more prosaic end: humanity wiped out because an AI tasked with a simple goal (say, creating paper clips, an example that is often used) requisitions all the energy and raw materials on Earth to relentlessly churn out paper clips, outsmarting and out-maneuvering all human attempts to stop it.

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