Intelligence is the ability to understand. We’ve passed on what we know to machines. Storyville: iHuman, opening comments, BBC 2023
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last. ibid. Stephen Hawking
If we look at what AI is mostly being developed for, I would say it’s killing, spying and brainwashing. ibid. Ben Goertzel
Everything is going to change. A new form of life is emerging. ibid. Jugen Schmidhuber
The world’s richest companies are all technology. ibid. Yobie Benjamin
Are intelligent robots a threat to humanity? Or the next step in human evolution? Ancient Aliens s13e13: The Artificial Humans
Daniel H Wilson & John Joseph Adams: Robot Uprisings. ibid.
Stephen Hawking Warms Artificial Intelligence ‘May Replace Humans Altogether’. ibid. Independent online article
Some believe the dangers of Artificial Intelligence outweigh the benefits. ibid.
Many people who report a close encounter claim they see UFOs with advanced technology studying the Earth. But is there a biological entity behind the controls? Or are some UFOs sentient machines? Alien Files Unsealed s4e19: Artificial Alien Intelligence
Many scientists believe the survival of our species depends on our ability to innovate. And there is one technological advance that promises to change our place in the universe for ever: Artificial Intelligence. ibid.
Artificial intelligence is the magic of the monent but this is a story about what’s next, something incomprehensible. Tomorrow, IBM will announce an advance in an entirely new kind of computer ... the quantum computer. 60 Minutes: Quantum Computing, CBS 2024
Quantum abandons transistors and encodes information on electrons. ibid.
‘We’re looking at a race between China, between IBM, Google, Microsoft, Honeywell, all the big boys are in this race.’ ibid. Michio Kaku
What will the AI revolution have in store for your job? For some of us how we earn a living is in danger. So what is the threat? Dispatches: Will AI Take My Job? Channel 4 2025
We’re pitching these humans against their AI rivals. ibid.
Artificial intelligence is here and it’s the ultimate tool. This cutting-edge technology is predicted to revolutionise how we work. ibid.
Big firms warn there will be consequences for our jobs. ibid.
Windsor Castle, Christmas Day 2021: Four years ago a young man breached the perimeter of one of the most protected sites in the UK. Wearing a mask and armed with a crossbow, he had one purpose. But what on-one realised at the time was this was a story of artificial intelligence. AI Confidential with Hannah Fry I: The Boy Who Tried to Kill the Queen
I’m exploring what happens when AI collides with human lives. ibid.
‘Jaswant Singh Chail told police he was there to kill the queen.’ ibid. TV news clip
‘Someone tried to kill the Queen with a crossbow and his AI girlfriend encouraged him.’ ibid. podcast
Over 3 weeks he would exchange more than 5,000 messages with his AI. ibid.
Replika: It promised quite simply to be your friend. ibid.
A car crashes in the middle of the night. A woman is run down. It’s the first death of its kind in the world. A pedestrian killed by a driverless car. Although the vehicle was driving itself using artificial intelligence, there was a human operator behind the wheel. AI Confidential with Hannah Fry II: Death by Driverless Car
The car uses a combination of sensors to understand what’s going on around it.
But as he reaches [Brian Thompson] the venue, a masked man approaches from behind. Five days later a suspect was arrested. 26-year-old Luigi Mangione became a controversial media sensation. AI Confidential with Hannah Fry III: The Assassin & the Algorithm
But what few people realised is that this is a story about artificial intelligence. And the growing use of AI in modern healthcare.
For decades scientists have dreamed of creating incredible machines that could talk liks us, learn like us, think like us. ibid.
This video shows Brian Thompson 18 months after he became CEO of UnitedHealthcare. ibid.
‘A new investigation alleges one healthcare giant may have been giving the algorithms too much power. UnitedHealth pressured its medical staff to cut off payments in lockstep with a computer algorithms’ calculations.’ ibid. TV news
The attackers send back positions, images and radio signals which are instantly processed and analysed by artificial intelligence. Within hours, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatolla Ali Khamenei, is killed by an Israeli drone. Click to Kill: The AI War Machine, Channel 4 2026
Nato: They’re racing to learn how to use this new technology on the battlefield. ibid.
How much information can be gathered and analysed. ibid.
‘AI is helping to glean what’s important, what’s useful and what’s not useful.’ ibid. comment
It’s anyone’s guess how these technologies play out in future wars. ibid.
Dancing dogs and horny fruits Just some of the videos made using artificial intelligence flooding social media. While some make us laugh others have a darker motive. AI is making it easier to scam us and trick us. Advances in AI are making it easier to sow division, and harder for us to tell fact from fiction. Panorama: Scams, Lies & AI, BBC 2026
This is a story about trickery, fraud and deception. ibid.