UK must avoid 'fear-driven backlash' in artificial intelligence

Tom Allen
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AI is a greater threat than climate change, poverty or terrorism, says professor Jim Al-Khalili

The UK government, industry and academia must work together to avoid artificial intelligence becoming an "uncontrolled and unregulated" technology, with development monopolised by just a few powerf...

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