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Instrumental convergenceIn 2003, Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper that introduced the concept of instrumental convergence to the field of artificial intelligence.
Economics of securityRoss Anderson wrote a paper titled Why Information Security is Hard in the year 2000. He argued that security technology fails when incentives do not align…
RiskThe word risk first appeared in English texts during the year 1621. Early writers spelled this term as risque to reflect its French origins.
Decision theoryBlaise Pascal published his Pensées in 1670, introducing a famous wager about the existence of God. This text marked an early moment when probability theory…