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 Photograph: AP Science Political science It's time for some messy, democratic discussions about the future of AI With a new set of principles for artificial intelligence, tech pioneers seem to be developing a conscience.
 Good – but the discussion must include more voices Jack Stilgoe and Andrew Maynard Jack Stilgoe teaches science policy at UCL.
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30 BST Today in Washington DC, leading US and UK scientists are meeting to share dispatches from the frontiers of machine learning – an area of research that is creating new breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI).
 Their meeting follows the publication of a set of principles for beneficial AI that emerged from a conference earlier this year at a place with an important history.