Otto Barten is director of the Existential Risk Observatory, a nonprofit aiming to reduce existential risk by informing the public debate. Technological progress can excite us, politics can infuriate ...

Is AI on the verge of wiping out humanity? Or does the existential threat come from something — or someone — else? Photo by LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images In the weeks following OpenAI’s launch of ...

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 ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are entirely controllable through human prompts and lack 'emergent abilities'; that is, the means to form their own insights or conclusions. Increasing model size does not ...

Using the key definitions across these six categories, the table below summarizes my reading of the report. What to fear for the future of humanity. Source: my reading of the GCRA 2024. Below is the ...

Free Expression: A Minnesota assassination gives rise to the usual wave of opportunism from both sides of the spectrum. So-called existential risks seem to be everywhere. Climate change, artificial ...

Kevin Spacey Says He's Homeless and ‘Living in Hotels,' Claims Hollywood Exile Would Be Over ‘If Scorsese or Tarantino Call ...

The nagging sense you are in the wrong place, wasting your potential, and watching others claim what should be yours is not ...

On the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a public health emergency of international concern, we face growing risks of even worse pandemics. But the world is not ready to respond. Leaders ...

Nearly 20 years ago, I was sitting in the Society for Humanistic Psychology Hospitality Suite during a convention of the American Psychological Association with three good friends: Richard Bargdill, ...