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The emerging technology is causing pratfalls all over – not least tech bosses begging for someone to regulate themThis story begins on 27 August 2019, when Roberto Mata was a passenger on an Avianca flight 670 from El Salvador to New York and a metal food and drink trolley allegedly injured his knee. As is the American way, Mata duly sued Avianca and the airline responded by asking that the case be dismissed because “the statute of limitations had expired”. Mata’s lawyers

Experts say the fallout from powerful AI will be less a nuclear bomb and more a creeping deterioration of societyAlarm over artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch in recent months. Just this week, more than 300 industry leaders published a letter warning AI could lead to human extinction and should be considered with the seriousness of “pandemics and nuclear war”.Terms like “AI doomsday” conjure up sci-fi imagery of a robot takeover, but what does such a scenar

Colonel clarifies comments about ‘rogue AI drone’ that supposedly killed its operatorA US air force colonel “misspoke” when he said at a Royal Aeronautical Society conference last month that a drone killed its operator in a simulated test because the pilot was attempting to override its mission, according to the society.The confusion had started with the circulation of a blogpost from the society, in which it described a presentation by Col Tucker “Cinco” Hami