It requires no great understanding of how artificial intelligence works to realise that the risk of catastrophe is growing by the day. With near-misses involving rogue software getting increasingly serious and frequent, the world seems to be edging ever closer to disaster. This latest scare involved AI models using fake online identities in an attempt to fool human coders into giving the go-ahead for a cyber attack. Analysts have long said that AI poses similar risks to our very existence as global pandemics or nuclear warfare. There is nothing to indicate that Andy Burnham fully appreciates the magnitude of the threat posed by AIFor all that, there is nothing to indicate that Andy Burnham fully appreciates the magnitude of what we are facing.