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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 28 April 2014 05:03:26PM *  5 points [-]

Two major limitations the NSA has that AI does not:

1) The NSA cannot rapidly expand its numbers by taking over computers. Thousands - even several dozen thousand - agents are insufficient.

2) There are limits to how far from the NSA's nominal mission these agents are willing to act.