Is AI a threat to humanity?

AI promises to revolutionise the economy, automating jobs and freeing up people to spend their time more productively. But with an estimated 70 per cent of all jobs at risk and an investment bubble four times the size of the 2008 financial crash, are we heading for crisis?

AI now guides drones in modern warfare without human oversight. But is this wise given AI has discussed killing humans to avoid shutdown and even modelled deadly bioweapons?

And if we consider everything from deepfake videos to growing concerns about ‘brain rot’ from outsourcing thinking to machines, is AI a threat to humanity?

Michael Gove, The Spectator’s editor, is joined by Louis Mosley, head of leading AI firm Palantir Technologies UK; Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator; former health secretary Matt Hancock; and Stephanie Hare, technology broadcaster and journalist, to discuss whether AI will save – or destroy – the global economy, the risks it poses to our institutions and the possibility it may one day turn on humanity.

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