Most reasonable people will agree that AI, unregulated (as it currently is), is a very dangerous thing. The question becomes, how is AI...

Let's begin with a reiteration of a point made prominently in this book’s predecessor: that point being, This time it’s different. That’s...

New technology has taken the world stage. And, as always happens when new technology takes the world stage, a loud chorus has arisen,...

It was 1952, and the idea of the modern digital computer was only a few years old – and unknown to the general public. But a newly-minted...

Faced with the possibility of malevolent AI that does us harm – or AI that freely complies when humans use it to harm other humans – what...

One place where AI is very likely to punch, and punch hard, is in the domain of social media, which has done plenty of damage to society...

It is not overstating to say that humanity is at a crossroads. It has been long anticipated, and goes by several names: the Fourth...

The general truth that “anything a human being can do, AI can do better” is in the water supply, and of course that isn’t quite true....

Peter Frase offers a variation on Robert Costanza’s AI outcomes matrix in his book Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. It bears a lot of...

What else should we be thinking about, when AI gets analogical? This necessary step toward artificial general intelligence – connecting a...

In 2017, Google’s DeepMind team unveiled AlphaGo Zero, a game-playing AI that was a successor to AlphaGo, which had beaten Lee Sodel, the...

Much is being written about how human-like generative AI seems, and just as much is being written about how that’s just an illusion;...

Those of us who have serious concerns, or even fears, about the future we face as AI becomes part of our world are wildly diverse: these...

Much of the disquiet over AI’s rapid advances is the growing fear that it will very soon catch up with us, and then blow right past us. A...

Melanie Mitchell, former student of Douglas Hofstadter and respected AI authority in her own right, recalled attending a conference at...

AI is popping up everywhere, and that’s not going to stop. Ever. And it only takes a few minutes in a news feed to find reasons to be...

One aspect of the AI parade that I find both enjoyable and reassuring is the range of the response. While the world is tightly polarized,...

As AI hype soars in the media, with dozens of new articles and blog posts pouring into everyone’s news feeds every day, it’s hard to...