Hello, this is a special edition of the Global News Podcast looking at artificial intelligence.

I'm Nick Miles and we will be giving you a step-by-step guide to what AI is, and what it can, and cannot do at the moment.

With a panel of experts in front of an audience at Science Gallery London, we will look ahead to how AI might transform our lives.

Everybody in 30 to 50 years may potentially get access to state-like powers,

the ability to coordinate huge actions over extended time periods, and that really is a fundamentally different quality to the local effects of technologies in the past.

We'll examine the effect it is having on our healthcare systems right now, and its scope and limitations for solving some of the huge environmental challenges we face.

Getting bogged down in a kind of a technological solution narrative stops us from really thinking about the fact that we have to be the ones who want to instigate this change.

Technology isn't going to solve these massive real existential risks for us. It's down to us, and it's down to the people who govern us, and it's down to our individual actions and collective actions as well.

Also in this podcast, as with any rapidly developing technology, there are concerns, of course, we will look at the perceived risks and how we can minimise them.

Can those technologies actually look after us in a way that is safe and satisfactory? What kind of devil's bargain are we making when we start to hand over our happiness and well-being to artificial intelligence?

Hello, and a very warm welcome to this special edition of the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service, all about artificial intelligence.

We're broadcasting today from King's College Science Gallery in London, part of a network of galleries connecting science with the arts around the world, from Atlanta to Berlin, Melbourne to Monterey.

AI is something that you can't fail to have noticed in recent months. The latest chat bots are amazed as all with their ability to almost instantaneously write essays on anything that you throw at them.

But as we'll see, AI goes way beyond that, of course. To discuss how we can harness the benefits of AI, whilst minimising the downsides, I'm joined by the BBC's technology editor, Zoe Climent, who will help guide us through the hour.

Let's first look at what AI is. Here's a collection of views that we gathered upstairs in the gallery, which is currently featuring installations looking at the challenges of AI.

I think it's a kind of machine created by human to make our life better.

AI is the same magic. AI is magic.

I would define AI as any kind of like data collection system that can output any data sort through it, like BIOS kind of asking it to.

A bit of awe, excitement and a bit of fear there. Well, what's a view from AI itself? We asked the chat bot, chat GPT.

AI, artificial intelligence, refers to the creation of computer systems or machines that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.

These tasks include things like understanding natural language, recognising patterns, making decisions, solving problems and learning from experience.

Chat GPT. Now for a human, let's get a definition from Dr Michael Luck, who's the former director of the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

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