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

Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert

The wreckage of the Hindenburg airship following the explosion that killed 36 people
The wreckage of the Hindenburg airship following the explosion that killed 36 people Photograph: AP

The race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned.

Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, said the danger arose from the immense commercial pressures that technology firms were under to release new AI tools, with companies desperate to win customers before the products’ capabilities and potential flaws are fully understood.

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