A quarter-century ago, Facebook's director of artificial intelligence made an AI chip. He was 25 years ahead of his time. (more…)

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…)

In order to discuss human rights in the context of technology ethics, we need to know exactly what we mean when we refer to human rights.

Vertical markets such as the automotive, agriculture and healthcare have long been impervious, if not indifferent to many of the new…

I ask 67 questions to Oxford Scholar and AI researcher Andrew Trask as we go for a walk through Granary Square in London, England. Trask is a PhD student at ... (more…)