OpenAI’s Sam Altman: AI will generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13,500 a year by Catherine Clifford on CNBC 17 March 2021
AI shows us the way towards a universal basic income. We have still not yet grasped that the pace...
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Category: AI
Machine in the ghost by Ed Simon in Aeon 5 February 2021
What price religion when machines have consciousness? It turns out that the answer may not be...
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Towards a code of ethics for artificial intelligence by Paula Boddington 2017
AI ethics remains a big unsolved problem. The more that one thinks about AI ethics, the more one...
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Algorithms are not enough by Herbert Roitblat 2020
We still don’t understand general intelligence. Roitblat notes that both humans and machines...
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The AGI revolution by Ben Goertzel 2016
Artificial general intelligence is on the way and we ought to think about it carefully. This book...
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The new grand bargain in The Economist 21 November 2020
Geopolitics will become geotechnics. The Economist points out that increasingly countries are...
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Holding on to job becomes harder as robots get a grip by Tom Knowles in The Times 20 November 2020
Seriously dexterous robots are right around the corner. It was only a matter of time before...
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Artificial intelligence: the practical legal issues by John Buyers 2018
The law and AI are out of sync. There are some areas of the law which more or less address...
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AI bot becomes therapist for the lonely by Emma Yeomans in The Times 3 November 2020
Chatbots get better and better. Mitsuku, otherwise known as Kuki, is a chatbot with a difference....
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The glass cage by Nicholas Carr 2015
Increasing automation will lead to a world of profound ennui. Automation is so seductive. It will...
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Ex-antics in The Economist 10 October 2020
Tech antitrust action is a slow-burning fuse. America’s Department of Justice is taking Google to...
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Head hand heart by David Goodhart 2020
Craft and care fight back against a world currently dominated by the cognitive. Goodhart...
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Army of none by Paul Scharre 2018
Chances are, fully autonomous weaponry will become widespread. It’s a loathsome thought but fully...
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Walking with robots in The Economist 29 August 2020
Mobile robots are moving forwards quickly. Boston Dynamics is transforming the ability of robots...
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Despite exam fiasco, algorithms have their place by Stephen Bush in The Times 18 August 2020
At last, sensible commentary on the A-level results jamboree. The way the commentariat has been...
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Responsible artificial intelligence by Virginia Dignum 2019
A worthy introduction to the vexed question of AI ethics. Dignum’s book lists the areas we need to...
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The political battle with Big Tech by Robert Colvile in Sunday Times 21 June 2020
Big Tech is making a bad political miscalculation. The British government tried in vain to set up...
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A world without work by Daniel Susskind 2020
A shocking but entirely plausible vision of the future. Historically, new technology has replaced...
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The precipice by Toby Ord 2020
Artificial general intelligence is our greatest existential risk. Ord’s book provides a taxonomy...
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The promise of artificial intelligence by Brian Cantwell Smith 2019
Today’s AI is still only scratching the surface of general intelligence. Superficially, Cantwell...
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