The lack of co-ordinated efforts to address the existential risk of superintelligence is astonishing and must change ...

If that last statement made you sit up and take notice, you’re not alone. The “godfather of AI”, computer scientist and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, has said there’s a 10–20% chance AI will lead to ...

If that last statement made you sit up and take notice, you’re not alone. The “godfather of AI”, computer scientist and Nobel ...

Tech leaders urge a pause on superintelligence, warning that uncontrolled AI beyond human IQ could pose existential risks.

German cognitive scientist Joscha Bach says humanity faces a bigger existential threat from dragging its feet on artificial intelligence than from building it too fast. What Happened: Speaking last ...

In an era when algorithms decide what we should read, wear or aspire to, the old wisdom rings true: authenticity is not a ...

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.

The business process management sector in India employs 1.65 million workers across call centers, payroll, and data ...

Seamus Heaney’s Personal Helicon evokes the poet’s childhood fascination with wells—dark, echoing sanctuaries of silence and wonder. These wells became, for the young Heaney, portals into depth and ...