Artificial Intelligence (AI) could pose a threat to lawyers as startups look towards automating various types of legal work. Once thought to be safe from the advancements of modern technology, lawyers’ jobs are now at risk, according to a new research collaboration. The collaboration was used to analyse legal briefs using a branch of AI …

The chief economist of Bank of England, Andy Haldane alerted that the UK will need to avoid "large swathes" of people becoming "technologically unemployed" as a result of using artificial intelligence across industries. Haldane said: "Each of those [industrial revolutions] had a wrenching and lengthy impact on the jobs market, on the lives and livelihoods of large swathes of society," Mr Haldane told me for the Today Programme. "Jobs were effectively taken by machines of various types, there was a hollowing out of the jobs market, and that left a lot of people for a lengthy period out of work and struggling to make a living. "That heightened social tensions, it heightened financial tensions, it led to a rise in inequality. "That hollowing out is going to be potentially on a much greater scale in the future, when we have machines both thinking and doing--replacing both the cognitive and the technical skills of humans."

Over the past year, Artificial Intelligence (AI for short) has become somewhat of a buzzword or area of discussion in the world of sales. Rumblings continue to grow over its imminent arrival and software companies claim to have developed applications like "AI-driven CRM's" that will supposedly make your sales job a breeze. If you're paying attention, hardly a week goes by where a podcast or webinar doesn't tout AI as one of the "hottest trends to look out for in 2018." AI is here, that we know for sure, but whether it is good for hardworking sales reps or to what extend it will disrupt the world of sales as we know it is up for debate. Opinions of experts vary from AI becoming a digital assistant to sales professionals or in the furthest extreme; replace salespeople outright.

Should you be scared by [artificial intelligence]? Based on a lecture I just attended, my answer is: "absolutely, but not in the usual'robot overlords' kind of way." More than just an academic, she is also an entrepreneur. El Kaliouby is CEO of Affectiva, a company whose "AI humanizes how people and technology interact." The AI built by Affectiva can identify the positions of facial muscles and uses them to infer the emotional state of its user. The technology will clearly have useful applications, like developing learning apps for kids with autism.

Governors are trying to make sense of an urgent message they got over the weekend. Elon Musk, the billionaire scientist behind Tesla Motors and SpaceX, swung by a gathering of state leaders and warned them artificial intelligence is an existential threat to human civilization. Colorado's Governor John Hickenlooper, who was there, described that moment to NPR. JOHN HICKENLOOPER: You could have heard a pin drop. A couple times he paused and it was totally silent.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responds to a question by Nevada Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval during the third day of the National Governors Association's meeting on Saturday in Providence, R.I. Among other things, Musk warned governors that artificial intelligence poses a "fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization." Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responds to a question by Nevada Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval during the third day of the National Governors Association's meeting on Saturday in Providence, R.I. Among other things, Musk warned governors that artificial intelligence poses a "fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization." Tesla CEO Elon Musk, speaking to U.S. governors this weekend, told the political leaders that artificial intelligence poses an "existential threat" to human civilization.