tl;dr: Artificial intelligence is likely to become more powerful than humans some day. Most superintelligent systems will by default develop instrumental subgoals that conflict with human interests. This could have catastrophic consequences. If we don't a... (more…)

Workers who label content and help computers understand language want their own voices to be heard. (more…)

There’s no question that AI will impact jobs. But which jobs are more likely to be replaced by… (more…)

People use their faces to communicate in subtle ways. A Facebook conversational bot trained on Skype chats had reactions indistinguishable from human ones... (more…)

Assia Boundaoui is leveraging the FBI’s decades of targeting communities of color to “fill in the blanks” of records she obtained in a federal FOIA battle as depicted in the documentary “The Feeling of Being Watched,” airing Oct. 14 on PBS. (more…)