Futurist Amy Webb envisions how AI technology could go off the rails

Futurists, Amy Webb explains, are not oracles but they can give a good indication of the direction in which society is going. Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist – a "silly, made-up-sounding title", she says. You could be forgiven for not immediately grasping what a futurist actually does, but she likens it to something more akin to a journalist, except one that reports on trends that they see flowering on the edges of society, as opposed to the here-and-now news. Webb's professional background is varied. She spent her first year after high school studying clarinet and piano.