FHI Research Associate Allan Dafoe and Stuart Russell have published “Yes, We Are Worried About the Existential Risk of Artificial Intelligence” in the MIT Technology Review as a response to an article by Oren Etzioni.
The Director of the United States Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) visited the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) today. Dr. Matheny joined researchers for discussions of biosecurity, artificial intelligence safety and existential risk reduction policy, among other topics.
The Future of Humanity Institute is delighted to announce the hiring of Jan Leike, and Miles Brundage for the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (SAIRC)
Do energy constraints of the human brain give reason to doubt the feasibility of artificial intelligence? This paper argues that the energy requirements for de novo AI may have little correlation with brain (emulation) energy requirements, since cost could depend merely on the cost of processing higher-level representations rather than billions of neural firings.
On October 7th Nick Bostrom will be speaking alongside Max Tegmark from the Future of Life Institute at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The event is titled CBRN National Action Plans: Rising to the Challenges of International Security and the Emergence of Artificial Intelligence.
The guests on HARDtalk are people who do much to shape our world. More often than not they’re testament to the talent and potential of the human species.
But what if we’re living on the cusp of a new era? Shaped not by mankind, but by machines using artificial intelligence to build a post-human world. Science fiction?
Not according to HARDtalk’s guest scientist and philosopher Nick Bostrom who runs the Future of Humanity Institute. Stephen Sackur asks, when truly intelligent machines arrive, what happens to us?
WBE represents a formidable engineering and research problem, yet one which appears to have a well‐defined goal and could, it would seem, be achieved by extrapolations of current technology. This is unlike many other suggested radically transformative technologies like artificial intelligence where we do not have any clear metric of how far we are from success…
The UK government must act now to ensure the UK is prepared for future extreme risks even greater than Covid-19, a new report finds. Disease warfare, leaks of dangerous pathogens from high-security labs, and misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) systems are identified as key threats to the UK and the wider world. The report, Future […]
