Artificial intelligence risks GM-style public backlash, experts warn

Researchers say social, ethical and political concerns are mounting and greater oversight is urgently neededThe emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI) risks provoking a public backlash as it increasingly falls into private hands, threatens people’s jobs, and operates without effective oversight or regulatory control, leading experts in the technology warn.At the start of a new Guardian series on AI, experts in the field highlight the huge potential for the technology, which is alre