In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) with the ominous title Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. It proved ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” because of how artificial intelligence could ...

AI ethics advocates: Originally focused on bias, transparency and fairness, but now expanding their scope to longer-term risks. AI governance experts: Pushing for regulatory guardrails, from the ...

An agreement with China to help prevent the superintelligence of artificial-intelligence models would be part of Donald Trump’s legacy.

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OpenAI signs the EU AI Code while Meta rejects it revealing divergent strategies on regulation, market expansion, and the future of global AI governance.

Before superintelligence and its human extinction threat, AI can have many other side effects worthy of concern, ranging from bias and discrimination to privacy loss, mass surveillance, job ...

Microsoft's new model-agnostic MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) achieved 85.5 percent diagnostic accuracy—outperforming ...

Fears about AI’s existential risk are overdone, says a group of experts Blaise Agüera y Arcas and his co-authors argue that tackling more immediate concerns will mitigate long-term threats ...

Addressing that risk, the researchers continued, will require developing a new approach to supervising AI. Developing such an approach is the focus of the research team OpenAI announced today.

This is an excerpt from Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini, published on October 31 by Random House. It has been lightly edited. The term ...