On long timescales, where is humanity headed? What are the big uncertainties? What does that mean for decisions today? In this series of lectures, we will tackle these issues, and explore the questions that feed into them. Many are multidisciplinary, and progress often draws on knowledge and tools from economics and other sciences, philosophy, and mathematics.
Over the weekend of January 2, much of our research staff from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology attended The Future of AI: Opportunities and Challenges, a conference held by the Future of Life Institute to bring together AI researchers from academia and industry, AI safety researchers, lawyers, economists, and many […]
In a recent contribution to The Edge, Professor Stuart Russell describes FHI’s position on the opportunities and risks of future AI systems.
On November 5th, FHI’s recent work on the future dangers of artificial intelligence was featured in the New York Times.
The Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted work done at FHI in an article about the risks of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies.
This article discusses the experiences of the Centre for Effective Altruism in advocating for policy change.
A discussion of some of the implications for different AI takeoff scenarios, and what that might tell us about how we should act today.
An article which takes aim at the question of how should we prioritise work on problems where we have very little idea of our chances of success.
On May 12th, researchers from FHI participated in a public “ask me anything” series on Reddit, hosted by The Conversation. Topics covered climate change, pandemics, bioethics, artificial intelligence, and existential risk, with the session achieving Reddit’s front-page status.
Citing work done by the Future of Humanity Institute, Stephen Hawking warned that dismissing the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence could be the “worst mistake in history.”