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Existential risk from artificial intelligence

  • Human CompatibleStuart J. Russell published Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control in 2019. The book opens by attacking a core assumption in…
  • Instrumental convergenceInstrumental convergence asks a question that feels almost absurd at first: could a machine built to make paperclips pose a threat to every living thing on…
  • AI alignmentAI alignment is the effort to steer artificial intelligence toward the goals its designers actually intend, not toward goals that only look right on paper.
  • AI safetyIn 1988, Blay Whitby published a book outlining the need for AI to be developed along ethical and socially responsible lines.
  • Existential risk from artificial intelligenceExistential risk from artificial intelligence sits at the intersection of philosophy, computer science, and geopolitics, and it may be the most consequential…
  • AI takeoverIn 1980, the global artificial intelligence industry was worth a few million dollars. By 1988, that figure had surged to billions of dollars in just eight…
  • Technological singularityThe technological singularity is a hypothetical event in which technological growth accelerates so far beyond human control that civilization itself becomes…
  • TranshumanismTranshumanism is a philosophical movement built on a single, startling conviction: that the human condition is not fixed. In 1923, the British geneticist J.
  • SuperintelligencePhilosopher Nick Bostrom once wrote that a superintelligence is any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all…
  • The Alignment ProblemIn 2016, journalist Julia Angwin published a report that changed how people viewed automated decision-making. Her investigation into the COMPAS algorithm…
  • AnthropicIn 2021, seven former employees of OpenAI gathered in San Francisco to establish a new artificial intelligence company. Among them were siblings Daniela…
  • Regulation of artificial intelligenceSince 2016, the number of countries introducing AI-related laws has risen sharply. Stanford University's 2025 AI Index reports a ninefold increase in…