'Free of evolutionary shackles!' Cambridge scientist says out-of-control AI THREATENS LIFE

Professor Cave cited the breakthrough of quantum computing as a major step in AI development, providing machines with a way to "become clever than we are". Another leading researcher, Anders Samberg, who works at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, warned that a major danger was that scientists may not realise their mistake in AI creation until it is too late. Earlier in the AI special of the Today programme, a researcher told the BBC that AI development meant that soon we would gain "ultimate liberation from our evolutionary shackles".