It wasn't so much the background scrutiny I'm worried about so much as,
"Alright, it's been fun doing this research on human-level intelligent robots. Oh, hey, I'm going to go to an AI conference in Shanghai..."
"Hahahahahaha! Good one! Um ... were you being serious?"
Yeah, that could get you in big trouble.
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