Last year, a theoretical exercise by a group of artificial intelligence researchers gained worldwide attention with an estimate of how humans could lose control of the technology.It showed how AI advances mean humans can look forward to a couple of years of utopian existence at the end of this decade, before we start being wiped out by robots eager to make better use of Earth’s resources to improve themselves.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles