The final instalment of our 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES, supported by CGI in the UK, is tonight 🙌 Join Mike Wooldridge as he explores some of the risks of AI - which are real and which are imagined? Find out tonight on BBC Four & iPlayer from 8pm. | Royal Institution of Great Britain

This science demonstration is over 200 years old, but we think it's still mind-blowing today 🤯 Humphry Davy first isolated the chemical element potassium right here at the Royal Institution, using electrolysis. The great natural philosopher was born #OnThisDay in 1778. | Royal Institution of Great Britain

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