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Economist and Owner of H Robotics - Pippa Malmgren

24/04/2015 GMT

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Economist and Owner of H Robotics - Pippa Malmgren

Could artificial intelligence pose an existential threat to humans?

Zeinab Badawi talks to the American economist and hi-tech entrepreneur Pippa Malmgren. By 2025 robots and artificial intelligence will be performing a lot more of the jobs that humans do at present. What is not clear is whether as a result of this, prospects will be brighter or bleaker for us. Will technology create more jobs than it destroys? Will only the brightest and most talented survive in jobs - leading to greater inequalities in society and could artificial intelligence even pose an existential threat to humans?

(Photo: Economist and hi-tech entrepreneur Pippa Malmgren)

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