We need a much more intelligent approach to the rise of AI | Letters

Readers respond to Larry Elliott’s article about the impact of artificial intelligence on the workplace

Like runaway climate change, the rapid development of self-learning artificial intelligence is an unprecedented existential threat to humanity, where past experience will be no guide to our future prospects (AI will end the west’s weak productivity and low growth. But who exactly will benefit?, 7 April). This is especially true when AI links to either super- or quantum-computing power.

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