Across universities and research centers, experts are studying how nuclear weapons, engineered pathogens, and artificial intelligence could reshape humanity’s future.
AI may not be the dire existential threat that many make it out to be. According to a new study, Large Language Models (LLMs) can only follow instructions, can't develop new skills on their own and ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to cause an "existential catastrophe" for humanity, a researcher has warned. Roman Yampolskiy, an associate professor of computer engineering and science ...
The Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston receives funding from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Nir Eisikovits serves as the data ethics advisor to Hour25AI, a startup dedicated to ...
Geoffrey Everest Hinton, a seminal figure in the development of artificial intelligence, painted a frightening picture of the technology he helped create on Wednesday in his first public appearance ...
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned that the development of generative artificial intelligence, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard, could have disastrous consequences in the near future.