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Expanded digital footnotes from Thinking the Unthinkable – the book.

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‘Catastrophic setback’

Director’s report on the conference ‘Machine learning and artificial intelligence: how we make sure technology serves the open society’, the Ditchley Foundation, 8–10 December 2017.

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See Sophia in action for yourself at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh: visit www.thinkunthink.org/digital-footnotes to watch the video.

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‘The robot revolution blurs the line between man and machine’ by John Thornhill, Financial Times, 11 July 2017.

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‘Algorithms are more valued than empathy’, letter from Eric Stryson in the Financial Times, 13 July 2018, p. 8.

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See for example ‘Will robots destroy us?’ by Tom Leonard, Daily Mail, 29 July 2017.

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See for example the Microsoft booklet The pocket guide to AI produced ‘in collaboration with the robots’. More can be found at microsoft.com/AI.

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See for example: Life 3.0: being human in the age of artificial intelligence (2017) by Max Tegmark. New York: Random House.

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Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Executive Director at Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, in the video Managing extreme technological risk (2017). To watch the video, go to www.thinkunthink.org/ digital-footnotes.

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‘Growing the artificial intelligence industry in the UK’, report by Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Southampton University, and Jerome Pesenti, CEO Benevolent Tech, speaking on Today, BBC Radio 4, 30 December 2017.

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Remarks by Dr Stephen Cave, Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Today, BBC Radio 4, 30 December 2017.

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‘Why machines do not have to be the enemy’ by Sarah O’Connor, Financial Times, 1 November 2017. It quotes new research from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. 216,000 adults in 40 countries were put through a 50-minute assessment in a Survey of Adult Skills. One-third of workers use cognitive skills daily in their jobs, yet competency levels have already been matched by computers. 44% are still better than machines. 25% have jobs that do not use their skills every day. See also House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee, AI in the UK: ready, willing and able? Report of Session 2017–19 – published 16 April 2018 – HL Paper 100.

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‘Robot behaviour demands AI transparency’ by Anjana Ahuja, Financial Times, 3 August 2017. Research quoted from Bath University presented at a conference at Sussex University.

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The malicious use of artificial intelligence: forecasting, prevention and mitigation, report by 26 authors from 14 institutions, spanning academia, civil society and industry, 20 February 2018. Also see: ‘AI ripe for exploitation, experts warn’, BBC News website, 21 February 2018.

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Jack Clark, head of policy at Open AI in San Francisco, quoted in ‘AI progress sparks fears over cyber weapons’ by Richard Waters, Financial Times, 21 February 2018.

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Keynote address to the Hay Festival, 27 May 2017.

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Lord Martin Rees in op cit. Managing extreme technological risk (2017).

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‘Special report: AI in business’, The Economist, March 31st–April 6th 2018.

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‘Emmanuel Macron talks to Wired about France’s AI strategy’, Wired, 31 March 2018.

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’The technologist’s dilemma’ by Mustafa Suleyman, RSA President’s Lecture, 14 November 2017.

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Asilomar AI Principles, Future of Life Institute, January 2017.

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Chaired by Stephen Metcalfe MP and Lord Tim Clement-Jones, and with support on content from the Big Innovation Centre.

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The RSA, formally the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (a title dating from the 18th century) advocates social and political change. The mantra of its CEO, Matthew Taylor, is ‘Think like a system, act like an entrepreneur.’

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The age of automation: artificial intelligence, robotics and the future of low-skilled work (2017) report by Benedict Dellot and Fabian Wallace Stephens. London: RSA.