It’s a question that has surfaced at the discussion tables of conferences and social chats everywhere-“Can machines turn on humans?”. It’s a question that often accompanies scenes and visuals from…
Ethical Bias In AI-Based Security Systems: The Big Data Disconnect
Podcast: Artificial Intelligence – Global Governance, National Policy, and Public Trust with Allan Dafoe and Jessica Cussins
Experts predict that artificial intelligence could become the most transformative innovation in history, eclipsing both the development of agriculture and the industrial revolution. And the technology is developing far faster…
AI Alignment Podcast: On Becoming a Moral Realist with Peter Singer
Are there such things as moral facts? If so, how might we be able to access them? Peter Singer started his career as a preference utilitarian and a moral anti-realist,…
AI Alignment Podcast: Moral Uncertainty and the Path to AI Alignment with William MacAskill
How are we to make progress on AI alignment given moral uncertainty? What are the ideal ways of resolving conflicting value systems and views of morality among persons? How ought…
Podcast: AI and Nuclear Weapons – Trust, Accidents, and New Risks with Paul Scharre and Mike Horowitz
In 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov prevented what could have been a devastating nuclear war by trusting his gut instinct that the algorithm in his early-warning system wrongly sensed…
Cognitive Biases and AI Value Alignment: An Interview with Owain Evans
At the core of AI safety, lies the value alignment problem: how can we teach artificial intelligence systems to act in accordance with human goals and values? Many researchers interact…
Can We Properly Prepare for the Risks of Superintelligent AI?
Risks Principle: Risks posed by AI systems, especially catastrophic or existential risks, must be subject to planning and mitigation efforts commensurate with their expected impact. We don’t know what the future…
How Do We Align Artificial Intelligence with Human Values?
A major change is coming, over unknown timescales but across every segment of society, and the people playing a part in that transition have a huge responsibility and opportunity to…
Japanese engineer makes a gigantic ‘Gundam’ robot, and it’s spectacular
Not sure if youve ever seen the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam, but it’s essentially about people who get inside absolutely giant robots and fight each other in them – top…
Experts are worried that a South Korean university could trigger the robot apocalypse
More than fifty of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence have come together to try and halt the actions of a South Korean university that they believe could basically…