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Opinion

Eric Schmidt: The AI Optimist?

Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has recently been in the news for standing in opposition to some of Elon Musk’s views on AI. This Friday, at a conference in Paris, he […]

Education

What is the AI Control Problem?

Getting help without endangering ourselves One day, AI systems will be better at thinking and acting on that thinking than we are. In essence, that means that they’ll be on the top of the food […]

Education

Will we ever have a Skynet?

The Likelihood of a Terminator Scenario So what about a world in which machines see us as a threat and take over? Judging by what experts like Nick Bostrom of Oxford University say, it all […]

Philosophy

What is the Treacherous Turn?

What is the Treacherous Turn? Will robots ever turn against us like we see in the movies and read about in sci-fi books? One particular theory seems to think so. The Treacherous Turn is a […]

AI News

How is AI Involved in the White House?

Falling behind or fully behind? Even an arguably high level of doubt pushing its way towards the Trump Administration from diverse directions, it is actually possible that they’re doing one thing right. In what might be […]