Will AI resolve the retirement planning conundrum? 

How would AI seek to optimise its retirement advice?

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Patrick Ingram looks at the world of AI through a retirement planning lens and asks if fast-developing technology could solve the complexities of later life planning...

In 2018, the Turing Award - arguably equivalent to a Nobel Prize for computing - bestowed $1m on three researchers for their work developing artificial intelligence (AI). Since then, the highly respected trio have taken up prominent positions in the world of AI research in industry and academia and became known as the ‘Godfathers of AI'. This month, two of those three have gone public on their regrets about what they've achieved. Geoffrey Hinton quit Google, warning of the dangers the technology he helped create may pose to humanity, having called for an international ban on autono...

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