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A.I. will bring a series of social and financial changes, and it will force us to confront a problem we’ve been avoiding for much too long, says Joscha Bach.

Some experts take issue with Elon Musk’s frightening warning about AI taking over.

Elon Musk issues a stark warning at the National Governor’s Association meeting.

The most make-or-break aspect of job automation? How policy makers handle your transition into a new career.

Just by looking at satellite images, AI can predict your income bracket, and tell us what wealth and poverty look like from space.

AI won’t really resemble humanoids. Instead, AI will create a world that countries and large companies can live in.

Quartz has analyzed 100,000 drawings to see if there are cultural differences in the way people draw basic shapes.

An MIT study predicts when artificial intelligence will take over for humans in different occupations.

AI is capable of self-reproduction—should humans be worried?

Europe’s best and brightest minds converge upon Budapest to solve the problems of today’s Europe. Topics will include AI, the job market, emerging technology, and more. 

Philosophers David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett argue over “philosophical zombies,” created to question the nature of human consciousness.

AI is short for more than just ‘Artificial Intelligence’. At this crucial stage in its design, we have to decide whether we want it to merely serve us, or to challenge and augment our many selves.

Job automation will need to strike a delicate balance — we want enough to make our lives more comfortable, but no more than that.rn

‘Deep learning’ AI should be able to explain its automated decision-making—but it can’t. And even its creators are lost on where to begin.

Philosopher Daniel Dennett believes AI should never become conscious — and no, it’s not because of the robopocalypse.

Elon Musk’s new company will use “neural lace” technology to link human brains with machines.

Even our most imaginative expectations of AI are only primitive — but as neuroscience understands the brain more deeply, it will unlock the full potential of hybrid intelligence.

What did Nikola Tesla or Bertrand Russell think of fewer working hours? Can a good life only come from work — and if so how much of it, and what kind?

This AI hates racism, retorts wittily when sexually harassed, dreams of being superintelligent, and finds Siri’s conversational skills to be decidedly below her own.  

A “forbidden research” conference at MIT tackles areas of science constrained by ethical, cultural and institutional restrictions. 

There’s a new verb in town: cognify. We have far too much baggage with the word ‘intelligence’ so to fully embrace the second industrial revolution we need to start talking about artificial cognification.

Elon Musk, Sam Harris, Ray Kurzweil and other visionaries discuss AI superintelligence at a recent conference.

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence learns what it takes to win, making human-like choices in competitive situations.

The driverless car is coming – but what will *you* being doing in your self-driving car? Robotic cars will give rise to a new ridership economy of on-the-go services and experiences.

One day this century, a robot of super-human intelligence will offer you the chance to upgrade your mind, says AGI expert Ben Goertzel. Will you take it?

We are on the verge of something meaningful and incredible with emergent artificial intelligence, says Toni Lane Casserly. But which way will humanity steer it? As with any system, it’s up to us.

Descartes’ solitary, inward-facing mindset misconstrues the social nature of our thinking. Social Cartesianism better captures the soul of what matters in distinguishing humans from animals or machines.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not nearly as smart as we want it to be. Because we are not nearly as smart as we want to be.

Google’s Deep Brain team watched neural nets learn to develop their own encryption.

They may look odd, but it’s all part of Google’s plan to solve a huge issue in machine learning: recognizing objects in images.