In this special interview, recorded at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Neil Cairns speaks to MIT professor and physicist Max Tegmark about the looming threat posed to the human race by the unrestricted development of Artificial Intelligence. In 2014, Max founded the Future Life Institute which campaigns for AI safety and pushes for regulations to be imposed on companies developing AI so as to stop the creation of Artificial General Intelligence and Artificial Super Intelligence, two specific forms of AI which could see human beings handing over power to machines, making them our descendants.
