Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd: 54. THE ABC OF AI: How can technology help humanity? (55m)

Hello! Artificial intelligence didn't write this description (yet), but it has begun to take over some tasks that humans were responsible for. Are the humans ready, are the computers safely still under our control, what happens when they're not? Max Tegmark, author of Life 3.0, and Duncan McCann from the New Economics Foundation joined us to talk about the AI revolution, when it is coming and whether it could be put to positive benefit for society. Comedian Amy Gledhill advocates for tax lessons, skill swap street gatherings and law enforced service station signage. This episode is published on www.acast.com,