Hassabis acknowledges the setbacks, and yet he keeps racing forward. His faith in governance mechanisms now shattered, he has come to see salvation, paradoxically, in his own career advancement. He ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Philip Maymin, a professor of analytics and AI, covers finance and AI. We call for a prohibition on the development of ...

About a decade ago, Geoff Hinton declared that human radiologists were like Wily E. Coyote in the Roadrunner show. They had run off the edge of a cliff, but hadn’t realised it yet. Their livelihoods ...

(via Kyle Hill) A new book by long-time AI researchers Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argues that superintelligence must stop. Now. It’s a conclusion that they didn’t want to come to, but the ...

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The topics of human-level artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI) have captivated researchers for decades. Interest has surged with the rapid progress and ...