These companies are principally engaged in the business of producing raw materials, including paper or wood products, chemicals, construction materials, and mining and metals.

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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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The paper industry consumes a tremendous amount of energy and raw materials: thin cardboard could cut both.

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In a report, 'Paper Cuts: Recovering the Paper Landscape', the institute says a reduction in use is essential, because of the consumption of raw materials that is involved in its production and disposal.

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