Neil Lawrence is the DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge, and over the course of his career has been involved in deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning in both academic and commercial scenarios. He talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the positive future power of artificial intelligence and how he feels everyone needs to learn how to embrace it, albeit with a healthy dollop of scepticism, not least when it comes to how our data is used, and the power of the 'digital oligarchy'
