There have been sobering warnings this week from MI5, the UK’s AI Minister and a number of security officials – AI is already a threat to our lives.

But despite those fears, innovation and AI development continues at breakneck speed.

So this week on AI Decoded we focus in on that central question of AI – should we accelerate the development of ever more powerful AI systems, or slow down before the risks become unmanageable?

It’s the question at the centre of a major new film, Artificial, which explores the growing divide between OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever over the answer.

To discuss it all, Marc Cieslak and Dr Stephanie Hare are joined by technology futurist Bernard Marr and AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy, one of the world’s leading voices on the risks posed by superintelligent AI.

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0:00 – Introduction
2:14 – The real threat of AI
10:05 – Waging war on data centres
12:03 – Can we control super intelligence?

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President Zelensky has said he feels “betrayed” by President Trump and the US.

He believes access to Elon Musk’s Starlink Starshield system, which is critical to Ukraine’s fight against Russia, was limited. Ukraine said systems have now been restored.

But – just how reliant Ukraine and others are on Elon Musk’s technology? And are there any alternatives?

In this video…

0:38 – What did Zelensky say
1:39 – What is Starlink
2:16 – What is Starshield
2:42 – What are they used for in Ukraine
3:13 – How important is US tech to Ukraine
4:27 – What has Elon Musk said
5:26 – Has the Pentagon responded
6:16 – Are there alternatives to Starlink
7:59 – Is Europe too reliant on US tech
9:11 – What is Trump’s Ukraine strategy

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The BBC has witnessed Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and set fire to olive trees in the occupied West Bank.

Several dozen settlers dressed in black charged down a hill near an outpost – illegal under Israeli and international law – to a field where Palestinians and activists were harvesting olives. They torched about a dozen trees and hurled stones from slingshots.

Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, who was at the scene, was taken to hospital where she told reporters she “got jumped” and described being kicked on the ground.

The UN says the past two weeks have already seen more attacks by violent Israeli settlers than during the entire harvest season last year. It says this year levels of settler violence have reached an all-time high.

The BBC’s Middle East Correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from the occupied West Bank.

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This week tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets of Delhi, India’s capital, demanding changes to the electoral system and the resignation of the country’s electoral commissioner. Thousands have been detained by police in the process.

They represent the ‘cockroach’ movement, a grassroots campaign group started by a Boston University graduate in protest at government policies and high youth unemployment. How did a movement that started as a meme capture the minds of India’s young people, and start to pose a challenge to its long-serving prime minister, Narendra Modi?

The BBC’s South Asia correspondent, Azadeh Moshiri, explains.

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0:00 Could the Cockroach movement reshape India?
0:51 Introduction to Azadeh Moshiri
1:28 What has been going on in India and how is the CJP involved?
3:05 The Cockroach Janta Party’s October demonstration in Delhi
7:34 How many people have been detained?
8:02 Who are the Cockroach Janta Party and their leader Abhijeet Dipke?
10:18 Indian exam leaks and their relevance
14:28 What caused the lull in protesting since summer?
17:01 Why is the CJP so popular?
19:21 Has Narendra Modi lost his political magic?
20:06 What is the justification for Modi’s BJP party to detain so many people?
23:04 Has Modi lost touch with the youth?Subscribe to our channel here: https://bbc.in/bbcnews

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