Artificial Intelligence: Machines Behaving Badly

Will AI destroy the world? Will it revolutionise space travel? Can robots have emotions? The kids ask Professor Toby Walsh the big questions. Toby is a genius with a background in theoretical physics, mathematics and a PhD in artificial intelligence, but he’s trying to do something even harder. Our future is not killer robots, accidents in driverless cars and machines taking our jobs, that’s already happening! Professor Toby is trying to convince the UN and the world to regulate AI. Hear about humanity’s true superpower, all the ways people can die, and the deepest most profound question being asked in science today. Plus… toilets and zombies. So when will AI take over? This episode contains the exact date.