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The next frontier is not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial societies

An opinion piece written by Professor Nick Jennings - Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University and an internationally-recognised authority in the areas of AI, autonomous systems, cyber-security and agent-based computing - for The Conversation platform.
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In a world that runs on digital systems, why are we still treating technical failures as surprises?

Almost everything we depend on is digital, interconnected and occasionally fails. The disruption to UK aviation this week is the latest reminder of how quickly a technical problem can escalate into a major public incident.
Dr Graham Hoare OBE, Chief Executive of the Manufacturing Technology Centre; Prof Gary Jones, Chief Executive of INFINITY; Prof Kath Mitchell CBE DL, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, University of Derby; Prof Nick Jennings CB, Vice-Chancellor, Loughborough University

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