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Concern grows over pitfalls that could emerge with its development, writes Nick Freer

Computer scientist, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil has said of technology: “Technological change is exponential… We won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century - it will be more like 20,000 years of progress.”

It would be fair to say that Kurzweil is bullish on artificial intelligence (AI), remarking that: “By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be as convincing as people”. If you like the movies, it’s a theme carefully and beautifully curated, albeit with terrifying consequences, in 2014 sci-fi thriller Ex Machina.

In recent weeks, AI has hit the global headlines like never before as the OpenAI boardroom debacle took a series of very public twists and turns in the press and via social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter).

Is it time to be more wary of Artificial Intelligence? - Nick Freer