The Y2K bug should teach us to be wary of AI | Letters

John Thow on the global effort that prevented a Y2K disaster, and Robert Frazer on Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics

Re the existential threat from AI (Letters, 2 June), Phyl Hyde says the concerns over Y2K were “a panic” about an “overblown future cause”. Like many IT specialists across the world, I am fed up with this misinterpretation of what happened. Organisations put serious money into employing thousands of people to inspect their systems and to amend them …

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