Live Episode: Will AI be a good companion? – podcast

In a special episode recorded live at the British Science Festival, Madeleine Finlay and her guests explore the question: will AI make a good companion?

AI could give us new ways to tackle difficult problems, from young people’s mental health issues to isolation in care homes. It also raises challenging questions about the increasingly important role of technology in our personal lives.

To explore these questions, Madeleine is joined by Guardian science editor Ian Sample; Tony Prescott, professor of computational robotics at the University of Sheffield; and Dr Mhairi Aitken, ethics researcher at the Alan Turing Institute and visiting professor at Queen Mary University of London.

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