Nuclear fusion, new drugs, better batteries: how AI will transform science

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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As the UK hosts the first global AI safety summit, Guardian science editor Ian Sample joins Madeleine Finlay to look on the bright side and consider some of the huge benefits AI could bring to science. Madeleine also hears from Prof Mihaela van der Schaar, an expert in machine learning in medicine, about how she predicts AI will transform patient care. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:37.7	Visit Houston and visit Fort Worth. This week the UK's Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, is hosting the World's First Global
0:56.3	AI Safety Summit.
0:58.0	Rishi Sunak will welcome senior politicians and technology executives to Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes,
1:04.0	27 governments will be represented including China as well as firms such as Google, Meta and
1:09.2	Microsoft. There's a lot to discuss from racial bias to disinformation in election campaigns.
1:16.5	Get this wrong and AI could make it easier to build chemical or biological weapons.
1:21.3	Terrorist groups could use AI to spread fear and destruction on an even greater scale.
1:26.8	All the way to existential threats to humanity.
1:30.5	What's freaking people out is that the warning comes from the scientists, engineers and
1:35.4	CEOs who are creating AI themselves. Their 22-word warning devastatingly clear. Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global
1:46.6	priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
1:52.3	But it's not all bad. such as pandemics and nuclear war.
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