Legal Aspects Of Artificial Intelligence - New Technology - UK

Writing in the Economist newspaper on 8 October 2016, US President Barack Obama called out artificial intelligence (AI) as one of several areas where'in recent years we have seen incredible technological advances'.2 Long a backroom area of computer science, AI has captured the popular imagination over the last two years as the range and impact of practical AI applications have expanded at a dizzying pace: a quick search on ft.com for'artificial intelligence and robotics' returned 4 stories from September and October 2014, 16 for the same period in 2015 and 54 in 2016. AI is one of several areas of digital innovation that are all both developing increasingly rapidly and interacting with each other in ways whose consequences are challenging to foresee. A useful portmanteau for these changes is the'fourth industrial revolution'. After steam, electricity and computing, this is the term coined3 by Davos founder Klaus Schwab for the deep digital transformation now upon us.