Live episode: will AI make a good companion?

In a special episode recorded live at the British Science Festival,
Madeleine Finlay and guests explore the question: will AI make a
good companion? AI could give us new ways to tackle difficult
problems, from young people’s mental health issues to isolation in
care homes. It also raises challenging questions about the
increasing role of tech in our personal lives. To explore these
questions, Madeleine is joined by the Guardian’s science editor,
Ian Sample; Tony Prescott, a professor of computational robotics at
Sheffield University; and Dr Mhairi Aitken, an ethics fellow at the
Alan Turing Institute and visiting senior lecturer at Queen Mary
University of London.. Help support our independent journalism at
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