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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Ian Sample Science editor

‘An AI Fukushima is inevitable’: scientists discuss technology’s immense potential and dangers

Demis Hassabis at the offices of Google DeepMind UK in London
Demis Hassabis, pictured at the London offices of Google DeepMind, is upbeat about the future of AI. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

When better to hold a conference on artificial intelligence and the countless ways it is advancing science than in those brief days between the first Nobel prizes being awarded in the field and the winners heading to Stockholm for the lavish white tie ceremony?

It was fortuitous timing for Google DeepMind and the Royal Society who this week convened the AI for Science Forum in London. Last month, Google DeepMind bagged the Nobel prize in chemistry a day after AI took the physics prize. The mood was celebratory.

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