A debate featuring prominent transhumanists and futurists revealed deep divides over whether AGI can be made safe, or will inevitably threaten human survival.
This is, admittedly, a rather stark headline, yet it is a serious multi-part question: Will artificial intelligence be the salvation of humanity, a neutral force within which boundaries we will make ...
A majority of Americans (53%) now think artificial intelligence is likely to “destroy humanity” someday, according to a new Yahoo/YouGov poll. Yet real people seem much more pessimistic about AI — and ...
The promise and peril of artificial intelligence has become one of the most urgent topics for humanity, triggering eager ...
The West faces a series of serious economic challenges. But, we are told, there is one enormous hope for the future of the global economy: artificial intelligence. AI will skyrocket economic ...
Three new books run the gamut from dismissive to alarmed about our automated future. By Stephen Marche Stephen Marche is the author of several books, including “Death of an Author,” a novel written ...
Microsoft Corp. consumer artificial intelligence chief Mustafa Suleyman is bent on creating a super intelligence that’s “aligned with human interests” and pledged to halt such work if it posed a ...
You know that feeling when you try to do a good thing and then accidentally scorch the entire planet? Yeah, the future can be terrifying. Lasers. Artificial intelligence. Nanotechnology. Soon, science ...
A majority of Americans (53%) now think artificial intelligence is likely to “destroy humanity” someday, according to a new Yahoo/YouGov poll. The survey of 1,770 U.S. adults was conducted from Oct.