Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up all the reasons we should be optimistic about a future of super-powerful self-taught robots running our lives.

I think the main thing is to have AI that's trustworthy, robust, in that it can't be subverted, and that it has to be fair.

That and education are the best antidotes for anything going wrong.

And some of the reasons we might be scared.

If you build something more powerful than yourself, how are you going to be sure that it never

has any power over you, ever?

We cannot solve that problem unless we change the way we think about designing computers.

AIs pros and cons plus solutions here on Business Daily from the BBC.

Your kids probably have one of these, right?

Not quite.

It's flying itself.

An imaginary product launched by a drone technology firm in the not so distant future.

Inside here is three grams of shaped explosive.

This is how it works.

Did you see that?

That little bang is enough to penetrate the skull and destroy the contents.

Well, that is fiction, for now at least.

It's a dramatized scenario written and filmed by some activist groups two years ago

to raise awareness about the potential for autonomous robot technology. Just as cars will soon be

driving by themselves, so too might military forces be able to release drones to locate and kill

human targets all by themselves, without instruction.

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