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July 27, 2018/by Jolene Creighton

Machine Reasoning and the Rise of Artificial General Intelligences: An Interview With Bart Selman

From Uber’s advanced computer vision system to Netflix’s…

July 25, 2018/by Ariel Conn

$2 Million Donated to Keep Artificial General Intelligence Beneficial and Robust

July 18, 2018/by Ariel Conn

AI Companies, Researchers, Engineers, Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Others Sign Pledge Promising Not to Develop Lethal Autonomous Weapons

June 26, 2018/by a guest blogger

A Summary of Concrete Problems in AI Safety

June 20, 2018/by Jolene Creighton

How Will the Rise of Artificial Superintelligences Impact Humanity?

Featured Stories

August 16, 2018/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: The Metaethics of Joy, Suffering, and Artificial Intelligence with Brian Tomasik and David Pearce

What role does metaethics play in AI alignment and safety?…

July 31, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Six Experts Explain the Killer Robots Debate

July 16, 2018/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: AI Safety, Possible Minds, and Simulated Worlds with Roman Yampolskiy

June 28, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Mission AI – Giving a Global Voice to the AI Discussion with Charlie Oliver and Randi Williams

June 14, 2018/by Lucas Perry

Podcast: Astronomical Future Suffering and Superintelligence with Kaj Sotala

Artificial Intelligence News

June 6, 2018/by Viktoriya Krakovna

AI Safety: Measuring and Avoiding Side Effects Using Relative Reachability

This article was originally published on the Deep Safety blog. A…

May 21, 2018/by Tucker Davey

Teaching Today’s AI Students To Be Tomorrow’s Ethical Leaders: An Interview With Yan Zhang

May 17, 2018/by Ariel Conn

ICRAC Open Letter Opposes Google’s Involvement With Military

Autonomous killer drones: what if?

April 30, 2018/by Tucker Davey

Lethal Autonomous Weapons: An Update from the United Nations

Biotechnology News

November 27, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Help Support FLI This Giving Tuesday

We’ve accomplished a lot. FLI has only been around for a few…

September 29, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Choosing a Career to Tackle the World’s Biggest Problems with Rob Wiblin and Brenton Mayer

September 28, 2017/by Ariel Conn

The Future of Humanity Institute Releases Three Papers on Biorisks

July 6, 2017/by a guest blogger

FHI Quarterly Update (July 2017)

May 31, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Nuclear Dilemmas, From North Korea to Iran

With the U.S. pulling out of the Iran deal and canceling…

April 27, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: What Are the Odds of Nuclear War? A Conversation With Seth Baum and Robert de Neufville

March 29, 2018/by The FLI Team

2018 Spring Conference: Invest in Minds Not Missiles

January 26, 2018/by Tucker Davey

Rewinding the Doomsday Clock

May 24, 2018/by a guest blogger

What Can We Learn From Cape Town’s Water Crisis?

The following article was contributed by Billy Babis. Earlier…

March 8, 2018/by Kirsten Gronlund

Can Global Warming Stay Below 1.5 Degrees? Views Differ Among Climate Scientists

February 22, 2018/by Kirsten Gronlund

As Acidification Increases, Ocean Biodiversity May Decline

February 6, 2018/by Tucker Davey

As CO2 Levels Rise, Scientists Question Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios of Climate Change

Congratulations to the AI Project Grant Recipients!

Congratulations to all the researchers who were awarded grants to further the science behind AI safety. Click on the award icon to learn more about their research.