Hillary Clinton spoke about the dangers of artificial intelligence in a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday.

The failed presidential candidate was on Hewitt's show to promote her book, but the conversation steered towards recent advances in technology.

Something that concerns Clinton is the potential for our society to become inundated with artificial intelligence - computers that mimic the human brain to complete tasks for us - such as home office assistants or even robot drones.

Hillary Clinton issued a stern warning about artificial intelligence in an interview on Wednesday

Amazon's Alexa device, which allows users to shop, play music and look up questions online all by voice, is one example of AI

Clinton says that AI can be a good thing, but she's worried that our society is rushing into a brave new world without thinking through the repercussions.

'Yeah, a lot of really smart people, you know, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, a lot of really smart people are sounding an alarm that we’re not hearing. And their alarm is artificial intelligence is not our friend.

'It can assist us in many ways if it is properly understood and contained. But we are racing headfirst into a new era of artificial intelligence that is going to have dramatic effects on how we live, how we think, how we relate to each other,' Clinton said.

She pointed to the case of driverless cars as one example.

'What are we going to do when we get driverless cars? It sounds like a great idea. And how many millions of people - truck drivers and parcel delivery people and cab drivers and even Uber drivers - what do we do with the millions of people who will no longer have a job? We are totally unprepared for that,' she said.

She continued: 'What do we do when we are connected to the internet of things and everything we know and everything we say and everything we write is, you know, recorded somewhere? And it can be manipulated against us?'

Clinton said that if she had been elected president, she would have started a 'commission' to give opinions on what America's policy on AI should be.