The reasons not to integrate AI into comprehensive nuclear command, control, and communications systems are manifold. They involve increased speed of warfare, accidental escalation, misperception of intentions and capabilities, an erosion of human control, first-strike instability, and the unpredict...

This post is based on several true stories, from a workshop which John has run a few times over the past year. …

The U.N. Security Council will hold a first-ever meeting on the potential threats of artificial intelligence to international peace and security organized by the United Kingdom.

An evangelical turned computer scientist has articulated how technology could all go wrong. Now he needs to figure out how to make it right.

We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, and dedicating 20% of the compute we’ve secured to date to this effort. We’re looking for e...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving the delivery of healthcare and medicine worldwide, but only if ethics and human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, according to new WHO guidance published today. The report, Ethics and governance of artificia...

Many top business leaders are seriously worried that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity in the not-too-distant future.

Some of the top publishers in the nation are in discussion to form a coalition aimed at examining the impact of artificial intelligence on the news industry.

OpenAI's ChatGPT and Sam Altman are in massive trouble. OpenAI is getting sued in the US for illegally using content from the internet to train their LLM or large language models

There was a debate on the statement “AI research and development poses an existential threat” (“x-risk” for short), with Max Tegmark and Yoshua Bengio arguing in favor, and Yann LeCun and Melanie Mit…

AI is here to stay, but at what cost? Connor Leahy is the CEO of Conjecture, a mission-driven organization that’s trying to make the future of AI go as well as it possibly can. He is also a Co-Founder of EleutherAI, an open-source AI research non-profit lab. In today’s episode, Connor and David cove...