Pushing the boundaries of Social Data Science Photo by NASA on Unsplash The buzz-phrase of our time, “Artificial intelligence,” has inspired all sorts of musings: from visions of utopic — and dystopic — futures freed from human labour, to more focused critiques on algorithmic discrimination. The reality is the ‘good, bad and the ugly’ of AI drives some of the most fundamental philosophical and societal questions we face today — and consequently much of our evolving tech legislation and policy.