Professor Brian Cox, BBC presenter and the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science, joins Eric Schmidt, former Executive Chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc., for a discussion on Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is having a remarkable impact on science, technology and people's lives, so how does it help us now and what might it mean for our imminent futures? With the help of the audience at the Science Museum, Brian will be asking Eric Schmidt: what lies ahead for AI?

Future missions to Mars, like the one planned by Nasa for 2020, have a'high chance' of finding microbial life, according to Professor Brian Cox. The physicist, best known for presenting Stargazing Live and Wonders of the Universe, says that these organisms may be more common than we might think in our solar system. Civilisations are another matter, he believes, and it may still be the case that we are alone in the universe as its only advanced intelligence. Future missions to Mars, like the one planned by Nasa for 2020, have a'high chance' of finding microbial life, according to Professor Brian Cox. Finding evidence of life on Mars will almost certainly involve a rover, and scientists admit it will be tough.