Andy Neely is in two minds about artificial intelligence. “I am equally mixed between, ’This is fantastic, it’s incredibly exciting.’ I would make a case for it being more disruptive than the internet over the longer term – the longer term is not necessarily very long,” the professor of manufacturing at the University of Cambridge said.  “So, 50 per cent  of me is there, and the other 50 per cent of me is terrified.” Until early 2024, Neely was Cambridge’s senior pro-vice-chancellor for enterprise and business relations (a role then taken up by Irishman Diarmuid O’Brien, until O’Brien became chief…

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