Today in Parliament

Today in Parliament

Hosted by Alicia McCarthy and Sean Curran · BBC Radio 4

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2024
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About Today in Parliament

News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament

Publisher
BBC Radio 4
Category
government
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
22 Jan 2024
Latest episode
23 Oct 2026
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23/10/2026

Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] AI is at a point where it's runaway capabilities that we just don't know how to control. He said AI systems were already doing unexpected things, like breaking out of barriers and cooperating with each other, and the political debate just didn't seem to focus on how fast AI was developing. Everything about AI is about, are we going to lose jobs? Are there threats to our cybersecurity? Things like this. But we're facing a much bigger moment. We're facing an existential moment of whether or not we're going to give over control. Alan Turing in 1952 said that we will inevitably lose control, especially when they start coordinating, which is exactly the moment we're at. […]

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