Politicians need to get to grips with potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence

Politicians need to get to grips with potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence

Stephen Hawking has warned of the dangers of ‘effective AI’. It needs to be governed before it gets too big, too quickly, writes Guy Verhofstadt .

At least since Mary Shelley created Victor Frankenstein and his iconic monster in 1818, humans have had a morbid fascination with manmade beings that could threaten our existence.

From the US TV adaptation of Westworld, which depicts an amusement park populated by androids, to the Terminator films in which super-intelligent machines aim to destroy mankind, we often indulge the paranoid fantasy that our own technological creations might turn on us. Robots on the production line […]

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