‘Bletchley made me more optimistic’: how experts reacted to AI summit

Not everyone sees AI as a threat to humanity - caveated hope was a common mood after the artificial intelligence safety conference

Bletchley Park, a milestone in Alan Turing's journey to technological immortality, heard warnings this week that the coming wave of artificial intelligence systems could threaten humanity.

But for one of the world's leading tech investors, holding back AI development will be just as damaging in terms of deaths in car crashes, pandemics and poorly targeted munitions that could have been prevented by the technology.