Tom Rigden News Today

Tom Rigden will be the first to hold the newly created position.

Former Google chief exec Eric Schmidt’s new book (co-authored by Daniel Huttenlocher and, strangely enough, Henry Kissinger) on humanity’s relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) sounds a note of caution, saying AI is “altering the human relationship with reason and reality.” In the press, he has said that he’s equally scared and excited by the AI future – a dualism of promise and peril familiar from science fiction. So should be we be excited or terrified? We asked some exper...