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Hello and welcome to the programme.

And on our agenda today, the relationship between three important pillars of modern society,

science, business and the public.

When the relationship works well, science makes some advance, possibly with the help of business investment.

Business exploits the advance and becomes the vehicle for delivering it to the public.

The public get better products.

That's the ideal path, at least.

Business in the middle, promoting science and selling it.

But sometimes the relationship goes massively wrong.

The words fear and distrust will haunt our discussion

today with the public often suspicious of business and the science it's selling. Genetically modified

foods are perhaps the greatest example in recent history. Others include nanotechnology. Do you remember

those worries about the world turning into grey goo as a result of it?

And artificial intelligence, fears of it destroying our jobs, potentially destroying us as well.

Well, with us we have Justin King who understands the public well, as he used to run Sainsbury's,

and two people from science-led businesses to help us work out how the relationship

between science, business and the public

can go right or wrong.

And let's hear what they each do in a little more detail.

First, Critty Sharma is vice-president

of artificial intelligence at the SAGE software company.

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