There is a basic question that has been confusing me for a while that I would like to ask about: Why are the goals of AI safety, like achieving safety from extinction risks, or protection for human wellbeing, not more often framed as the goal of making moral machines? Or...
The invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties and provided a sickening laboratory for the development of the technology of war. Since then, major advancements have been made in unmanned drones and more generally, lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), defined by the ability...
One of the earliest speculations about machine intelligence was that, because it would be made of much simpler components than biological intelligence, like source code instead of cellular tissues, the machine would have a much easier time modifying itself. In principal, it would also have a much easier time improving...
In a paper presented in November 2025 at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Georgia Tech revisited earlier findings that showed that language models, the engines of commercial AI chatbots, show...
Since AI was first conceived of as a serious technology, some people wondered whether it might bring about the end of humanity. For some, this concern was simply logical. Human individuals have caused catastrophes throughout history, and powerful AI, which would not be bounded in the same way, might therefore...
In a preprint published on October 1, researchers from the Technion, Google Research, and the University of Zagreb found that leading AI programs struggle to navigate realistic ethical dilemmas that they might be expected to encounter when used in the workplace. The researchers looked specifically at models including Anthropic's Claude...
It was at least since 2021, according to the authors of a preprint from March, that researchers began to see something interesting on the insides of their models. Also known as an AI program, created from a neural network architecture, a model processes a word by learning to represent it...