Among those putting forth predictions of the AI future is the Pew Research Center, which published a June 2023 report summarizing the ...

In the hands-on world that’s coming, the biggest and most impactful threats of AI aren’t likely to be cataclysmic; they’re more probably...

Above, I’ve confessed my anxiety about the future my children and grandchildren are facing, a future fraught with few certainties, other...

Above, we noted the prediction that all human labor – every job humans currently do – will be taken over by AI in the next 12 decades....

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the potential pitfalls presented by the rapid rise of AI, and justly so: AI is the...

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...

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...

Above, Melanie Mitchell has reminded us that the abstract activities of chess and Go – two applications that AI put human beings firmly...

We’ve already noted that Douglas Hofstadter, in his seminal Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, established baselines for both...

When considering our AI future, the new human era of human-machine integration, there are numerous scenarios we are obliged to evaluate....

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...

There’s much debate over how soon AI and robots are going to strip away human labor, with predictions (documented elsewhere in this book)...

I have a grandson named JJ. He’s a college freshman, studying to be an engineer. He’s bright, focused, curious, and industrious –...

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;...

You probably see some, if not all, of these headlines every day at this point: AI is going to cause a global financial meltdown AI can do...

The Millennium Project, a think tank belonging to the World Federation of United Nations Associations, in its State of the Future 19.1...

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...