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Radio 4,30 May 2023,45 mins

AI could lead to extinction, experts warn

The World Tonight

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Today, three hundred and fifty leading AI experts agreed with him - warning that it poses an existential threat to humanity on a par with pandemics and nuclear war. We'll ask one of them what lies behind the apocalyptic language. Also on the programme: Despite the protests, a controversial talk by the gender critical academic Kathleen Stock went ahead tonight at the Oxford Union. We speak to two Oxford students on different sides of the free speech debate. The rock band - Royal Blood - have sparked a backlash after insulting the crowd at a festival. So it that ever a good idea?

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