'A lot of people are sleepwalking into it': the expert raising concerns over AI

Kate Crawford, one of the world's pre-eminent scholars on the social and political implications of artificial intelligence, is being watched. She has arrived at our meeting point outside an anonymous inner-Sydney building before me and, while she waits on the footpath, is twice questioned by people who seem to be security staff. A woman is the first to come out of the building. Are you meeting someone here, she asks, do you have an appointment? He asks Crawford if there's anything she needs.