The past sixty years have seen a giantium jump in the growth of artificial intelligence. AI has already infiltrated our daily lives (Ask Alexa) and they are starting to make seismic shifts in the ways we interact with our world. Are we on the threshold of an AI-dominated reality? How will the ethics of this expanding field be developed and enforced in practice? This brilliant and disquieting review, replete with astonishing up-to-the-minute imagery – a trademark of the Big Idea series – evaluates whether AI can transform society and humanity for the better or whether its enormous capability will bring about a dystopian AI-controlled future for the planet.