Recently, some have argued that uncertainty might be a useful framework to help humans act more ethically in our approach to artificial intelligence. Philosophers William…
The foundational models that underpin generative AI technologies feed off vast, almost unfathomable quantities of data. Better data usually means better models — and the…
This month’s issue is all about rights. We’ll discuss human rights, machine rights, corporate rights, and even the potential for new classes of groups worthy…
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has become one of those terms that seems to mean everything and nothing at the same time. In Silicon Valley, it…
The way the tech industry talks about AGI is revealing. In press releases, investor decks, and keynote speeches, AGI is framed as a kind of…
Anthropic recently released a new “Constitution” for its large language model, Claude. The updated document is meant to govern the model’s behavior and guide its…
Sequoia Capital, arguably the most influential technology investment firm in the world, recently declared that artificial general intelligence had been achieved. There were no bells…
At a Warner Bros studio near Hollywood in the fall of 2024, Tesla staged a glitzy showcase of its AI progress. Acting as master of…
Artificial intelligence is forcing a reconsideration of one of our oldest moral assumptions: that suffering requires a body. For centuries, pain has been tied to…
What if an AGI worked as well as an automated call answering system? Disaster. Even though they are smarter than yesterday, our everyday communications technologies—dropped…
Some of the biggest names in AI research recently conspired to define “artificial general intelligence” once-and-for-all in a landmark research paper entitled “A Definition of…
We find ourselves in a peculiar historical moment. The brightest (and most expensive) minds in technology are locked in a frantic race to build Artificial…