Part 1 of a Series on AI Safety Research with Rob Miles. Rob heads away from his 'Killer Stamp Collector' example to find a more concrete example of the prob... (more…)

We've seen remarkable gains in artificial intelligence – but only in specific, narrow domains, like fraud prevention or navigation. One reason for that is the way AI innovations get adopted. Another is our poor ability to distinguish between real progress... (more…)

We hired a panel of professors to create a writing prompt and gave it to a group of recent grads, undergraduate-level writers, and Artificial Intelligence. (more…)

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Stanford University’s AI index offers us fanciful measures of the triumph of AI, rivaling the far-fetched metrics of dot-com commerce. The reality has been the opposite. For decades, U.S. productivity grew by about 3% a year. Then, after 1970, it slowed t... (more…)