AGI
Paperclip Maximizers, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity
Existential risk from AISome believe an existential risk accompanies the development or emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Quantifying the probability of this risk is a hard problem, to say nothing of ...
OpenAI Launches Security Committee Amid Ongoing Criticism
OpenAI has a new Safety and Security Committee in place fewer than two weeks after disbanding its “superalignment” team, a year-old unit that was tasked with focusing on the long-term effects of ...
25.6 Million Dollar Deepfake Scam, Exploring Canada’s Flipper Zero Ban
In episode 317, Tom and Kevin discuss a reported deepfake scam that allegedly led to the theft of 25.6 million from a multinational company and Canada’s attempt to ban the Flipper Zero ...
Cybersecurity and Safety of AI and Robots
The article in The New Yorker of May 14, 2018 by Tad Friend with the title “Superior Intelligence: Do the perils of A.I. exceed its promise?” describes two schools of thought with ...