Over the past 25 years, technological innovation has accelerated unprecedentedly, transforming societies worldwide.

He recounts how in March 2016, AlphaGo, an AI system, beat Lee Sedol, the Go world champion, in a match. It is not the defeat itself, but the manner in which it happened that he found terrifying.

By way of example, AlphaGo, a system built by Alphabet's DeepMind, surprised experts of the highly complex board game with its inscrutable 37th move, on a path to defeating Lee Sedol in a match in ...

By way of example, AlphaGo, a system built by Alphabet's DeepMind, surprised experts of the highly complex board game with its inscrutable 37th move, on a path to defeating Lee Sedol in a match in ...