Like the creation of the atomic bomb, artificial intelligence will change everything – the problem is we just don’t know how
At 5:29am on July 16 1945, the world entered the nuclear age. Deep in the New Mexico desert, scientists watched the first test of “the gadget”: a nuclear bomb with a 13lb radioactive core. This was “Trinity”, the climax of the Manhattan Project, one of the most expensive research and development projects ever undertaken. The men who had birthed this atomic weapon watched through protective goggles, shielded in bunkers 10km away from where the gadget had been hoisted up a 100ft tower to mimic the effect of being dropped from a bomber.
