Andrew joined BBC Scotland live to unpack one of the week’s sharpest AI contrasts: Geoffrey Hinton’s warning that advanced AI could threaten human extinction, set against Arm CEO Rene Haas’s prediction that AI will help cure cancer within our lifetime.
Drawing on his practitioner experience, including early cancer-focused AI work at IBM, Andrew offered a grounded middle path: AI is best understood through the lens of the internal combustion engine, a genuinely transformative technology that also needs guardrails, built through testing, monitoring, and the right regulation, not fear.
“My advice today would be: ignore the scaremongering. Sit down with someone who knows a bit more than you do about AI and get them to show you what it can do. You’ll then have what I call the aha moment.”
