My incredibly wise ex, Nibal, once told me when our kids were young: ‘They are not mine, I don’t have the right to raise them to be what I want them to be. I am theirs. I am here to help them find a path to reach their own potential and become who they were always meant to be.’

One scenario that is played out less often in sci-fi is where AI supports humanity but is on the wrong side – the aggressive nations or evil villains.

Almost everything you’ve ever seen in science fiction has already become a science fact.

Steve Omohundro, a computer scientist and physicist who specializes in how artificial intelligence will affect society, outlined the three basic drives most intelligent beings – which includes us as much as it does AI – will follow to achieve goals. The first of these is self-preservation. This is simple to understand. In order to achieve a goal, o

Ever-raging though they seem to be, almost every emotion you have ever felt is rational. I would argue that emotions are a form of intelligence in that they are triggered very predictably as a result of logical reasoning, even if that reasoning is sometimes unconscious.

Every device can be physically located in the world with an accuracy of a few centimetres. Every machine we build in the modern world is uniquely identifiable and locatable.

Our decisions are not driven by intelligence. Intelligence only enables us to make them, but . . . . . . the way we make decisions is entirely driven by the lens of our value system.

While those emotions eventually manifest themselves in the form of feelings and sensations that we feel in our ‘hearts’ and our bodies, and while their effects can be observed in our behaviours and actions, they undoubtedly originate in our intelligence.

if we build the right environment for the machines to learn in, they will learn the right ethics.