AI is very much a phenomenon that is already having quite an impact on our daily personal and working lives.

There are many visible ways in which AI is influencing, changing and shaping our world, and both it and its allied discipline machine learning are being used in many other areas. Indeed, perhaps it’s important to reiterate that AI is actually an umbrella term that incorporates many sub-disciplines.

AI is set to dominate the business, consumer and public sector landscape over the next few years with technologists predicting that soon we will be surrounded by IoT devices capable of performing mundane tasks and speeding up complex ones. Indeed, many of the benefits AI offer will centre around the workplace

Although AI can virtually remove human error from processes, it can still exist in the code, along with bias and prejudice. Being largely algorithm-based, the technology can be coded to have a negative impact on certain demographics and discriminate against people.