Zach Smith, a former Google engineer and founder of AI startup Nova AI, says AI changed everything about how he works.
Will AI solve complex problems and save us? Or will it obfuscate truth, destroying humanity? Like any paradox, the answer is unclear.
The Centre for AI Safety has published a statement that emphasises the need for implementing appropriate AI risk-reducing controls.
AI Could Threaten Humanity Within 2 Years, Warns UK AI Task-Force Adviser Authored by Savannah Fortis via CoinTelegraph.com, The U.K. prime minister’s AI task force adviser said large AI models would need regulation and control in the next two years to curb major existential risks The artificial intelligence (AI) task force adviser to the prime minister of the United Kingdom said humans have roughly two years to control and regulate AI before it becomes too powerful. In an...
Author: Jonathan Rosen “The Best Minds” is Jonathan Rosen’s brilliant and heartbreaking account of an American tragedy. “The Best Minds” is a deeply sad book. It is a story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community; the promise of intellectual achievement; and the lure of utopian solutions. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, at times almost unbearably sad, “The Best Minds” is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many. In the hands of a writer of...
Why are so many experts suddenly worried whether artificial intelligence will kill us all? Let's walk through the basics of AI to find out.
Roger Haines writes that there is no evidence of AI sentience, while Prof Paul Huxley recalls Asimov’s laws of robotics, and Phyl Hyde says fears of AI are being overblownRegarding Jonathan Freedland’s article about AI (The future of AI is chilling – humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation, 26 May), isn’t worrying about whether an AI is “sentient” rather like worrying whether a prosthetic limb is “alive”? There isn’t even any evidence that “sentience” is a thing. More...
We shouldn’t let people throw the world away in a perverse race to destruction, writes AI researcher Katja Grace
A group of leading artificial intelligence experts have issued a warning that the technology could be capable of making humanity extinct. In a short statement posted online top tech experts warned that the threat from AI is as great as pandemics and nuclear war. Also in the programme: The search is continuing for four children believed to have survived a small-plane crash in the Colombian Jungle; and a new national security law has come into effect in the Chinese territory of Macau which...
Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson shares a warning about a new way cybercriminals can attack you while using artificial intelligence chatbot apps and how to remain safe.
It is never too early to think about the ethical issues that can arise from any new technology.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Ok, doomer. For the past few weeks, the AI discourse has been dominated by a loud group of experts who think there is a very real possibility we could develop an artificial-intelligence…