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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rupert Neate

Wednesday briefing: Inside the battle to contain – and capitalise on – artificial intelligence

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Politicians and computer scientists alike wonder if AI will usurp humans – or help us. Photograph: tampatra/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Good morning. Does artificial intelligence (AI) pose an “extinction-level threat” to humankind or is it a remarkable “force for good” that could develop new drugs and gene therapies for previously incurable diseases (and make big tech firms billions of dollars along the way)?

Scientists, mathematicians and politicians from around the world will next week battle it out at the world’s first AI summit at Bletchley Park, the Buckinghamshire country estate where Alan Turing cracked the Enigma code that helped end the second world war.

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