There has been a lot written about the transformational power of artificial intelligence. If you are a regular reader of this column, you have gained the perspectives of eight of the leading thinkers ...

One of the world’s most celebrated philosophers has apologized for writing a racist email in which he used an appalling racial slur and said he believed it was “true” that “Blacks are more stupid than ...

Fretting about AI taking your job is so passé. At best, it will upend society as we know it. At worst, it could kill and dismember us to make paperclips. Gainful employment will be the least of your ...

Philosopher Nick Bostrom is surprisingly cheerful for someone who has spent so much time worrying about ways that humanity might destroy itself. In photographs he often looks deadly serious, perhaps ...

Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth. We have learned to worry about asteroids and supervolcanoes, but the more-likely scenario, ...

Nick Bostrom—father of modern debates about existential risk from artificial intelligence—is worrying he may have yelled “Terminator!” in a crowded theater, creating a neo-Luddite stampede that could ...

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Philosopher Nick Bostrom recently posted a paper, where he postulated that a small chance of AI annihilating all humans might be worth the risk, because advanced AI might relieve humanity of “its ...