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Recent headlines about smartphone addiction among children and tech companies failing to prevent the proliferation of porn and terrorist material online - coupled with stories about billionaires and Russian spies using technology to manipulate democratic politics - can often make it seem like we are living in a science fiction nightmare.

John discusses with Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of the best-selling books Sapiens and Homo Deus, about how - in science fiction - we make the assumption that if a robot has artificial intelligence it will also have artificial conscience.

(Image: Robot, credit: Getty Images)