In a special episode recorded live at the British Science Festival, Madeleine Finlay and guests explore the question: will AI make a good companion?
AI could give us new ways to tackle difficult problems, from young people’s mental health issues to isolation in care homes. It also raises challenging questions about the increasing role of tech in our personal lives.
To explore these questions, Madeleine is joined by the Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample; Tony Prescott, a professor of computational robotics at Sheffield University; and Dr Mhairi Aitken, an ethics fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and visiting senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.
Could AI help cure ‘downward spiral’ of human loneliness?
About Author
More Stories
‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years
How owls helped me conquer my fear of the dark
‘All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it’: the global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on