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Is AI coming for your job next?
For years now the peddlers of Artifical Intelligence have told us that the technology will free us from the drudgery of work, but is this really what humanity needs and wants? Acclaimed economist and author of A world without work Professor Daniel Susskind explains the opportunities and dangers that might lay ahead. The children of the so-called ISIS brides have spoken publicly of their despair after they were prevented from leaving Syria last week, saying they want to return to Australia to go to school and see their families. Sydney doctor and Muslim leader Jamal Rifi says he has been…
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