Artificial Intelligence
Is AI out to kill us?
In the current debate, I question the widely-held premise that the AI would want to kill or harm its creator. Wouldn’t that be a lot like patricide?
Artificial Intelligence
Guest essay: High tech leader demands restraints on AI
“Another reason people underestimate AI is that analogies to the effects of past innovations are misleading. We have no experience with a technology that can be adopted quickly or that can think and move like a human.”
Coronavirus
Virus: Bill Gates predicted an epidemic
No one could have seen this coming? Coronavirus, I mean. Hang on to your sorcerer’s hat, Nostradamus (h/t to Julian Fox), but a viral attack that would lay low an unprepared world was presented as a TED Talk in 2015. By Billionaire Bill Gates. The talk is less