When someone warns that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity itself, it is bound to draw attention. So the subject needs little introduction when researcher Jonathan Rystrøm of Oxford University picks up his phone.
»It’s something that looms large in the research world too, and I was going to spend my day on it anyway, so I might as well talk to you«, says the Danish researcher, who is working on a Ph.D. on artificial intelligence in the public sector.