Artificial intelligence (AI)In the footsteps of Claude Shannon? Encountering artificial intelligence, Round 1 AI in historical context How significant is AI? Is it a second or third or fourth industrial revolution? Or something different? And why does that matter anyway? Impact of AI How will people, institutions and goverments respond to AI? How should they respond? Regulating AI (or not) Where is the failure? Designing & implementing an appropriate regulatory environment How will AI impact us economically & socially? What will it mean to us? And who is us? Understanding AI What is AI, really? Unpacking & demythologising AI and large language models Combining technologies The prospective impact of robots on human work & employment Limits of AI The nature of consciousness and artificial general intelligence Ethics of AI Ethical issues that arise with th use of AI: intellectual property and algorithmic targeting Living with AI
