The Gov­ern­ment would not have left the pub­lic in the dark if there were a se­ri­ous se­cu­ri­ty threat to the coun­try and will not do so in fu­ture.

When most peo­ple hear the term ‘ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence’ (AI), they pic­ture self-dri­ving cars, voice as­sis­tants like Siri and Alexa, or chat­bots that gen­er­ate text on de­mand. These ...