IN THE PAST year, as the startling capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have emerged into public view, attention has been drawn to the existential risk, or “x-risk”, that the technology may ...

How policymakers and technologists are debating AI tail risks, using dark speculation, wargaming and insurance-style analysis ...

The White House has finally released the long-awaited National Security Strategy (NSS). Among the document’s patronizing treatment of US allies, incongruous aspirations to be the best in every ...

In “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the HAL 9000 was built to be infallible. Instead, it became dangerously misaligned with its human operators: It prioritized its survival over the humans’ safety. Though ...

Big tech is at best a C student when it comes to keeping us safe from AI, according to the latest iteration of the AI Safety Index released by the Future of Life Institute.

Artificial intelligence can do a lot more than, say, improve the efficiency of customer service agents, as important as that might be. Google DeepMind’s AI tool, for instance, has predicted 2.2 ...

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Back when I covered finance, traders would talk about whether the markets were “risk off”—fearful of losses and retreating to the safest assets—or “risk on,” pouring money into riskier equities in the ...

The "godfather of AI" has left Google, offering warnings about the existential risks for humanity of the technology. Mark MacCarthy calls those risks a fantasy, and a debate breaks out between Mark, ...

Every four years, the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends report generally catalogs the global issues that the United States and its incoming presidential administration ought to be most ...

TL;DR – An existential risk is the possibility of an event or series of of events that could drastically curtail humanity’s potential. A hypothetical global catastrophe could be anthropogenic or ...

☄ Is Washington getting more serious about existential risk? Is a successful society more like a mighty oak tree or a wispy blade of grass? The tree might seem the obvious answer — though you’ve ...