AI could be an extraordinary force for good. So why do our politicians still not have a plan? | Gaby Hinsliff

If our leaders keep ceding power to the nerdy wizards of Silicon Valley, we will have no say over the kind of world we want to live inFour weeks ago in San Francisco’s Chinatown, an empty self-driving taxi was mobbed and set on fire. It’s still not clear whether the crowd attacked the Waymo robot car – billed as “the future of transportation” – out of some broader irritation with a Californian tech elite seen as threatening jobs, anger over autonomous vehicles