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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

‘Bletchley made me more optimistic’: how experts reacted to AI summit

Elon Musk (right) told the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, that AI would usher in an ‘age of abundance’.
Elon Musk (right) told the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, that AI would usher in an ‘age of abundance’. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Bletchley Park, a milestone in Alan Turing’s journey to technological immortality, heard warnings this week that the coming wave of artificial intelligence systems could threaten humanity.

But for one of the world’s leading tech investors, holding back AI development will be just as damaging in terms of deaths in car crashes, pandemics and poorly targeted munitions that could have been prevented by the technology.

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