AI: What is it? Can it be stopped? BBC correspondent answers

What is AI? Could it pose a threat to humanity? Can it be regulated or stopped? The BBC's AI correspondent Marc Cieslak answered viewers questions about the technology.

This comes as US President Donald Trump criticised the head of AI company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, after he called for a slowdown in development of the technology.

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