Ask the ethicist: How to create guardrails for the AI age

Ask the ethicist: How to create guardrails for the AI age

Will AI devastate humanity or uplift it? Philosopher Christopher DiCarlo's new book examines how we can navigate when AI surpasses human capacity.

A future with artificial scientific intelligence raises a disturbing question, will we continue to understand science when it is no longer we who make it?

Developers of AI Superintelligence Know It Endangers Humanity: Roman Yampolskiy

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with AI safety expert professor Roman Yampolskiy, who says we are only a couple of years away from AI superintelligence that will endanger humanity. Yampolskiy says the companies developing AI are aware of the danger, but are driven by technological competition and profit. He says we have no way to predict or control intelligence that is beyond our own. ...

Why Isaac Asimov thought AI would save the world

Shortly before his death in 1992, acclaimed sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov outlined a hopeful vision of artificial intelligence's role in humanity's evolution.