In “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the HAL 9000 was built to be infallible. Instead, it became dangerously misaligned with its human operators: It prioritized its survival over the humans’ safety. Though ...

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Back when I covered finance, traders would talk about whether the markets were “risk off”—fearful of losses and retreating to the safest assets—or “risk on,” pouring money into riskier equities in the ...

Every four years, the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends report generally catalogs the global issues that the United States and its incoming presidential administration ought to be most ...

Artificial intelligence can do a lot more than, say, improve the efficiency of customer service agents, as important as that might be. Google DeepMind’s AI tool, for instance, has predicted 2.2 ...

The concept of singularity presents a futuristic scenario where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence, creating existential risks for humanity. As we stand on the brink of unprecedented ...

Last summer, former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner published a 165-page analysis, “Situational Awareness, The Decade Ahead,” in which he argues that human-level, artificial general intelligence ...

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The "godfather of AI" has left Google, offering warnings about the existential risks for humanity of the technology. Mark MacCarthy calls those risks a fantasy, and a debate breaks out between Mark, ...

The United Nations should create a new international body to help govern the use of artificial intelligence as the technology increasingly reveals its potential risks and benefits, according to UN ...

At the final pair of forums on Wednesday, industry experts offered their suggestions for how to install appropriate guidelines for the technology to stop specific threats to U.S. interests. The first ...

"Because this is such a new space, a lot of the proposals will be about more transparency, and about what companies are doing with AI, and how boards are overseeing risks," said Jamie Smith of the EY ...