Everything you wanted to know about AI – but were afraid to ask

Barely a day goes by without some new story about AI, or artificial intelligence. The excitement about it is palpable – the possibilities, some say, are endless. Fears about it are spreading fast, too. There can be much assumed knowledge and understanding about AI, which can be bewildering for people who have not followed every twist and turn of the debate. So, the Guardian's technology editors, Dan Milmo and Alex Hern, are going back to basics – answering the questions that millions of readers may have been too afraid to ask.