According to Kokotajlo, one of the core challenges is AI alignment, i.e., ensuring that advanced systems adopt goals and values aligned with human interests.

This week, thousands of TikTok users were whipped into an apocalyptic frenzy as viral predictions of the 'Rapture' spread online. However, rather embarrassingly for the preachers who predicted it, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stuart Russell testifying at a congressional hearing on AI oversight in July 2023. (Valerie Plesch—Bloomberg/Getty Images) The ...

The global competition to dominate artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch, but one of the world’s leading computer scientists warned that Big Tech is recklessly gambling with the future of ...

Tech CEOs are locked in an artificial intelligence "arms race" that risks wiping out humanity, top computer science researcher Stuart Russell told AFP on Tuesday, calling for governments to pull the ...

A new book about AI has a provocative title: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue that the development of artificial ...

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