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Controlling AI is the great challenge of our age

The genie is only half out of the bottle, says Richard Susskind, but we should be in a state of high alert – and anyone who thinks otherwise is ‘plain daft’

Frances Gibb
A seminal moment in the advance of AI: the world chess champion Garry Kasparov is beaten by the IBM computer Deep Blue in 1997.  Getty Images
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  • How to Think About AI: A Guide for the Perplexed

    Richard Susskind

    OUP, pp. 224, £10

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