A year ago on Nov. 1, national leaders, heads of international institutions, policymakers, and technology executives from around the world gathered together at Bletchley Park, north of London, England, to address the threat that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to us all. Are we any safer from AI in the interim 12 months?

The transformational potential and the promise of AI are well laid out, so we won't rehash them here. But let's discuss why should we worry about AI risks. There is no shortage of havoc that AI tools could wreak on our societies. There is the misinformation, thanks to deepfakes and other false "news" that could affect public security and confidence in the political process. There is the use of facial technology to affect our liberties by entrenching bias in the criminal justice system and perpetuating inequitable outcomes like false arrests and unfair sentences. There is also the threat that other AI tools pose to our privacy, including the right to own our images, voices and likeness. There is the disparate impact that automation in sectors like health care and financial services poses—particularly to people of color and other traditionally marginalized communities. And then there is the fear of potential job losses to automation as some of the knowledge-based work gets replaced by Artificial Intelligence, that as the quip goes needs neither coffee breaks nor healthcare. And then there is the dark specter of automation of warfare to keep us up at night, worried. Indeed, every country is grappling with the same kinds of questions and searching for ways to mitigate the risks that this rapidly evolving technology brings in its wake.