AI nightmares may be real: inside the 12 May Guardian Weekly

It’s time to take our fears about machine learning seriously. Plus: London’s own game of thronesGet the Guardian Weekly magazine delivered to your home addressThe name Geof frey Hinton was little known outside the tech industry until last week, when the so-called “godfather of AI” gave an interview after leaving Google in which he warned that machine learning is leading us into uncharted territory. So is now the time to get properly frightened about the capabilities