On Thursday 11th September 2025 I attended the “AI in Government and Academia Summit 2025” hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), the Department for Science, Innovation, & Technology (DSIT), and Government Digital Service (GDS). The day was co-chaired by Dr Tommaso Spinello (DSIT) and Professor Keeley Crockett (MMU) and opened by Professor Darren Dancey.  Starting events […]

Asimov had the three laws in his fictional robots stories to protect humans and robots, but what about in non-fiction? Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI The Asilomar Conference was organised by the Future of Life Institute and took place in January 2017 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds (California), with many researchers, experts and thought leaders […]

Professor Stuart Russell used the term “The Gorilla Problem” in his book, “Human Compatible” (Penguin, 2019), to describe how a super intelligent artificial intelligence (AI) could be a threat to humanity. Russell poses the problem “of whether humans can maintain their supremacy and autonomy in a world that includes machines with substantially greater intelligence“. At […]