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AbilityNet’s head of Digital Inclusion Robin Christopherson has been honoured at the AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards for his outstanding personal contribution to inclusive technology.

After a month-long public vote, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) announced that it has given its annual Luddite Award to a loose coalition of scientists and luminaries who stirred fear and hysteria in 2015 by raising alarms that artificial intelligence (AI) could spell doom for humanity. ITIF argued that such alarmism distracts attention from