Robert Peston warns about Artificial Intelligence
Has Robert Peston, the BBC's high-profile business editor, been reading Ray Kurzweil? He broadcast some intriguing comments in A Dark Magic, a programme about the use of computers in financial trading which aired on 8th July. Near the start of the programme, an unidentified American interviewee says: "The most interesting thing I've observed is this battle between man and machine. It's like watching the Terminator movies in the financial markets. We came that close to being wiped out." Towards the end of the show, Peston himself asks us to: "...remember the fate of world in the film Terminator, when machines...