In this episode of the AI Alignment Podcast, Paul Scharre discusses what autonomous weapons are, their potential benefits and risks, and the on going debate around the regulation of their development and use. (more…)

The coronavirus epidemic has brought virtually nothing other than misery, pain, fear and disruption. Though we may still be far off from the day we can close the book on this scourge, we are now inching towards what seems like such a long-lost sense of no... (more…)

The AI community is finally waking up to the fact that machine learning can cause disproportionate harm to already oppressed and disadvantaged groups. We have activists and organizers to thank for that. Now, machine-learning researchers and scholars are l... (more…)

We developed Asicmon, a scalable observability framework that abstracts metrics from high level health and monitoring software. (more…)

Originally built to speed up calculations, a machine-learning system is now making shocking progress at the frontiers of experimental quantum physics... (more…)