I’ve finished reading “The Alignment Problem” (ISBN: 9780393635829), by Brian Christian. As the subtitle states, it’s an attempt to discuss fuzzier aspects of human value with the growing relevance of ...

In artificial intelligence (AI), the “alignment problem” refers to the challenges caused by the fact that machines simply do not have the same values as us. In fact, when it comes to values, then at a ...

Last week, an unreleased model built by OpenAI breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing, and a lot of theoretical research suddenly became very practical. The hack was the first ...

“OpenAI’s board got almost everything wrong, but they were right to worry about the terms on which we build the future, and I suspect it will now be a long time before anyone else in this industry ...

Imagine an alien fleet landing globally—vastly more intelligent than us. How would they view humanity? What might they decide about us? This isn't science fiction. The superior intelligence isn't ...

Christian (The Most Human Human), a writer and lecturer on technology-related issues, delivers a riveting and deeply complex look at artificial intelligence and the significant challenge in creating ...