of human beings. professor russell is giving this year's bbc reith lectures, which examine the good and the bad sides of ai seeping into every aspect of our lives. and where humanoid robots claim to wear their brains in plain sight, it's the ai hidden from view that's having the greatest impact. there have been amazing advances in areas like medicine, checking my liver here for example or hunting for breast cancer, but when we let a! make decisions that we either cannot control or don't understand, we run the risk of getting loans refused for unknown reasons, ourfaces not being recognised when they should be, or our elections being influenced and our opinions being manipulated when our social media feeds become filled with more and more polarizing and extreme content,