Student-led groups focused on AI Safety have popped up at Stanford University and other schools, backed by billionaires fixated on the AI apocalypse... (more…)

Sen. Edward Markey says COVID-19 contact tracing can't be "used as cover by companies like Clearview to build shadowy surveillance networks."... (more…)

In the 2014 movie Ex Machina, a robot manipulates someone into freeing it from its confines, resulting in the person being confined instead. (more…)

Collectively, the pools were reportedly worth more than $10 million in undeclared tax revenues. (more…)

To build a general artificial intelligence, we may need to know more about our own minds, argues the computer scientist Melanie Mitchell. (more…)