I watched Panorama's, "Are you scared yet, human?" last night and I admit, it did scare me.
It's getting harder and harder to tell how much is scaremongering and how much is genuinely worrying, in the field of AI as well as many others.
Huawei say they're independent of government while working on AI emotion recognition, which has allegedly been used by police when interrogating suspected "dissidents" locked in metal restraining chairs. The government are saying they don't discriminate against any minorities and allow religious freedoms, goes against evidence showing the reverse.
The US saying that there's a battle to develop and use AI between them and China, with the outcome uncertain and the consequences of falling behind being of global importance.
But then you have the medical uses of AI, which could revolutionise medicine, speed up diagnosis and therefore enable earlier life saving treatments.
It's doin' me 'ead in.