Julia Angwin's 2016 report revealed that the COMPAS algorithm showed bias against certain demographics while claiming to be neutral and accurate. Her investigation into automated decision-making exposed deep flaws in how criminal justice systems predicted recidivism among defendants.
DeepMind released AlphaGo in 2016 after years of research into reinforcement learning systems. The program defeated world champion Lee Sedol at the game of Go, marking one of the most impressive achievements in automated curriculum design.
Philosophers Toby Ord and William MacAskill have spent years developing strategies to navigate existential risk alongside machine intelligence. Their work focuses on effective altruism as a framework for aligning AI objectives with human moral frameworks.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine awarded the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication to this book in 2022. The honor came through a partnership with Schmidt Futures recognizing outstanding science communication efforts.
By 2024, The New York Times placed the work first among five best books about artificial intelligence ever written. Their selection noted that if readers could only choose one book on the subject, this would be the one.