Over 70% of people fear AI in some way, with 24% worried it will take over the world. Canvas8 spoke to Tom Chatfield, author of Critical Thinking, to find out how we can create AI that won’t jeopardise our liberty, and to understand how human biases influence machine programming.

Rather than relying on coded data sets to solely inform AI’s decisions, Google is letting its AI learn by watching humans’ facial expressions. By familiarising it with people’s emotions, Google’s technology is making users comfortable by weaving emotional intelligence into its thinking systems.

People have grown accustomed to seamless tech interfaces, but whether they're giving a voice command or tapping on a screen, they still need to tell their devices exactly what to do. Aiming to make smartphones more predictive than passive, Biggerpan is using AI to remove the need to search online.

People are nervous about emerging technologies, yet 63% of people don’t realise they already using AI every day. Canvas8 spoke with Alex Salkever, co-author of The Driver in the Driverless Car and VP of communications at Mozilla, to understand how we can rethink AI's presence in our lives.