It (objection to a machine that could think) was the hook used by the rabble rousers, whose monopoly of moral interpretation might be challenged. (Mark Clifton)

It (objection to a machine that could think) was the hook used by the rabble rousers, whose monopoly of moral interpretation might be challenged.

Mark Clifton

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