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The Connected Business May 2017

This month we look at important questions about our future: is it time to have a serious debate about universal basic income?; the weaponisation of AI; and we review Vivek Wadhwa’s book about our unease over industrial revolution 4.0

Fears of automation overshadow our road to the future
Our anxiety about technological innovation has changed little in the past 120 years
Elite’s fears over tech backlash drive universal income debate
Technological disruption is breaking the income distribution model
Silicon Valley aims to engineer a universal basic income solution
UBI conjures up an image of an ideal future that appeals to techies
Hope and fear collide in Wadhwa’s book as driverless car accelerates
Author Vivek Wadhwa explores the unease over industrial revolution 4.0
If you can’t beat robots then why not teach them?
Is it too late to cash in on the boom? Studying machine learning may still be a good idea nonetheless
From autonomous drones to fake news generators, Military researchers seek to weaponise AI
The lack of rules governing intelligent algorithms is a danger

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