hour. what is the latest? tension. you can feel hour. what is the latest? tension. you can feel the hour. what is the latest? tension. you can feel the anxiety hour. what is the latest? tension. you can feel the anxiety in - hour. what is the latest? tension. you can feel the anxiety in the - you can feel the anxiety in the air is hundreds watch on henman hill, many british fans tried to will andy murray over the line. this is going along in the first set as you say and we are exceedingly heading for a first set tie break against the fifth seed, against a man, tsitsipas, who has not reached past the fourth round here but compared to any murray who is a two time champion but is now 36 with a metal hip. not one the people we would expect to be a contender this week but any murray says he is feeling good and want to couple of challenger tournaments on grass coming into these sheep and ships and he believes he can beat tsitsipas who has had frailties in the past. this could
we are still a long way from curing. we have been getting some reaction to all that from sir nigel shadbolt, researcher in al, professor at oxford university. he is the executive chair of the open data institute. health s a good example. drug discovery, prediction of disease, it s already performing at levels to analyse images from ct scans to x rays. there s a whole range of ways in which ai, which is great at finding patterns, great at producing outcomes, great at finding and applying the rules that might help us build better solutions, can operate to our benefit. health s a good example, but so is climate change, another existential threat. it will be the ai driven models that help us understand how the climate is changing and what we can do to ameliorate those effects. they will be hugely consequential. and one could really reel off a whole range of area where the benefits really are there to see. they ve been there for decades. we re seeing them more dramatically reveale
johnson. so that s coming up. it is rishi sunak speaking at the launch of tech week, technically, but we will be on watch forjohnson mentions. that s all coming up. let s hearfrom you, mentions. that s all coming up. let s hear from you, 85058 on the text, 08085 909693 on the phones. this is the nation s phone ins. and we have got the news for you with bethan. a committee of mps who ve been investigating whether borisjohnson misled parliament about lockdown parties at downing street are to finish their inquiry today and decide when it ll be published. mrjohnson resigned as an mp on friday describing the committee as a kangaroo court after he saw an advanced copy. scotland s first minister humza yousaf is facing pressure to suspend his predecessor nicola sturgeon from the snp after she was arrested. ms sturgeon was questioned as part of a police investigation into the party s finances. she was later released without charge and insists she s innocent of any wrongdo
of will be in the milder zone. some significant snow to begin with in the mountains in the north east. on saturday there will be some sunny spells and temperatures up to about 12. warm christmas eve, back to you, i2. warm christmas eve, back to you, sophie. thanks, matt. and that s bbc news at ten. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. are the machines about to take over? that basic fear seems to underpin much of the discussion about artificial intelligence, and parallel developments such as synthetic biology. the latest wave of tech advances offers us extraordinary new possibilities, but do we flawed human beings have the will and the means to contain and control them? well, my guest is mustafa suleyman, ceo of inflection ai and the author of a challenging book on al and us. is that a doomed relationship? mustafa suleyman, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for havin
mustafa suleyman, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you here. now, you, in your career, are wrestling with the complex relationship between us humans and increasingly intelligent machines. it seems, if i ve got it right, that you re not so much worried about the machines you re worried about us, our wisdom. is that right? it s a great way of putting it. i mean, i think the great challenge we have is one of governance. containment means that we should always be in control of the technologies that we create. and we need to make sure that they are accountable to us as a species, they work for us over many, many decades and centuries, and they always do way, way, way more good than harm. with every new type of technology we have, there are new risks risks that, at the time we experience them, feel really scary. they re new. we don t understand them. they could be completely novel in ways that could be very harmful. but that s no reason t