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Ganesh Viswanath Natraj sets out the case for a UK CBDC. One potential benefit is a rise in financial inclusion by providing an easier way for the UK鈥檚 1.2 million unbanked residents to access banking services
Economic experts have warned of 5 years of lose economic growth and a 60% change of a recession due to being unprepared for geo-political tensions and socio-economic circumstances, according to the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR).
Science fiction writers are fascinated by humanity鈥檚 capacity for self-destruction and AI has provided them with the inspiration for many great Hollywood villains.
Some, like the android Ash in Alien or Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey, strike far from home, where no-one can hear you scream. Others target us from a post-apocalyptic future, like the Terminator.
Some even create alternative AI worlds to control and cultivate us, like The Matrix.
But the most unsettling are those that lie just beyond the frontiers of current technology – haunting glimpses of a future that is one scientific 鈥榖reakthrough鈥� away.