What if the decision to launch a nuclear weapon was left to AI? That’s the extreme thought experiment Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan posed as he called for stronger global safeguards on artificial intelligence at the UN General Assembly. 

On AI & Me, Lynlee Foo and Nazirul Asrar dives into the AI news that made the headlines, and to ask listeners if they would completely trust an AI system to make an important decision for them, if they knew there was a human who could intervene.