Stephen Fry: ‘If we sleepwalk into AI we’re in great danger’

Artificial intelligence (AI) is both the biggest opportunity and the biggest challenge to face society since the industrial revolution, according to Stephen Fry.Opening the Festival of Marketing today (4 October), the author and TV personality urged society to wake up to the potential of AI before it’s too late.“AI is the great tsunami facing us all that we seem to be so unprepared for. We sleepwalked into the internet age and virtually woke up [when it had already] happened,”