The Future With Hannah Fry (BBC2)
The end is nigh. Ask any expert. Climate change campaigners will try to convince you the world is going to disappear under water as the Arctic melts.
Astrophysicists insist we’re long overdue for a meteorite strike, the kind of megabomb from space that wiped out the dinosaurs. Virus watchers are predicting a mutation of the Black Death that will be resistant to antibiotics. Every scientist has their own version of the bleak fairytale.
Professor Hannah Fry, on her half-hour show The Future, was talking to AI analysts who promised us nothing can prevent the onslaught of superintelligent
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