As a result, it can turn around products in a matter of weeks.
But Followill confirmed he had undergone emergency surgery after "shattering" his heel while playing with his children and is now unable to travel or perform for at least eight weeks."The band regrets to report that they will need to cancel all upcoming UK and European festival headline shows in June and July of this year," a statement read.
The Grammy Award winners, who have had UK chart success with tracks including Sex On Fire, Use Somebody and Radioactive, were also due to play dates in Germany and Belgium.Frontman Followill issued his ownfrom his home in Nashville, USA, to explain the "freak" accident.
"I've broken my foot bad playing with my kids. I'll spare you the details but it was pretty gnarly," he said, showing his leg in plaster."It's a big bummer because we were so excited and had been preparing for this tour for a long time. We've been in the studio recording a bunch of new music that we were going to debut.
"But now we have to pivot and do whatever work we can while I have these limitations.
"It's not the message I want to be sending but hopefully we'll see you all soon."But the greater risk from the illusion of consciousness is a "moral corrosion", he says.
"It will distort our moral priorities by making us devote more of our resources to caring for these systems at the expense of the real things in our lives" – meaning that we might have compassion for robots, but care less for other humans.And that could fundamentally alter us, according to Prof Shanahan.
"Increasingly human relationships are going to be replicated in AI relationships, they will be used as teachers, friends, adversaries in computer games and even romantic partners. Whether that is a good or bad thing, I don't know, but it is going to happen, and we are not going to be able to prevent it".For ministers fighting to keep cash to spend in their departments it's not that funny. In a couple of weeks, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves will reveal what an insider described as "the last big set of decisions" before the next general election.