AI may not be the dire existential threat that many make it out to be. According to a new study, Large Language Models (LLMs) can only follow instructions, can't develop new skills on their own and ...

Across universities and research centers, experts are studying how nuclear weapons, engineered pathogens, and artificial intelligence could reshape humanity’s future.

The Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston receives funding from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Nir Eisikovits serves as the data ethics advisor to Hour25AI, a startup dedicated to ...

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned that the development of generative artificial intelligence, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard, could have disastrous consequences in the near future.

Who’s afraid of the big bad bots? A lot of people, it seems. The number of high-profile names that have now made public pronouncements or signed open letters warning of the catastrophic dangers of ...

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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The rise of ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence systems has been ...