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June 26, 2017/by Tucker Davey

Using History to Chart the Future of AI: An Interview with Katja Grace

The million-dollar question in AI circles is: When? When will…

June 24, 2017/by Rob Bensinger

MIRI’s June 2017 Newsletter

June 14, 2017/by Tucker Davey

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: An Interview With Moshe Vardi

May 30, 2017/by Matt Scherer

Op-ed: On AI, Prescription Drugs, and Managing the Risks of Things We Don’t Understand

May 18, 2017/by Ariel Conn

The U.S. Worldwide Threat Assessment Includes Warnings of Cyber Attacks, Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, etc.

Featured Stories

June 1, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Creative AI with Mark Riedl & Scientists Support a Nuclear Ban

https://soundcloud.com/futureoflife/creative-ai-with-mark-riedl-scientists-support-a-nuclear-ban If…

April 27, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Climate Change with Brian Toon and Kevin Trenberth

March 31, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Law and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

February 28, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: UN Nuclear Weapons Ban with Beatrice Fihn and Susi Snyder

January 31, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Top AI Breakthroughs, with Ian Goodfellow and Richard Mallah

Artificial Intelligence News

June 7, 2017/by Ariel Conn

How Smart Can AI Get? Chinese

May 16, 2017/by Rob Bensinger

MIRI’s May 2017 Newsletter

May 1, 2017/by Viktoriya Krakovna

Machine Learning Security at ICLR 2017

April 18, 2017/by Nate Soares

Ensuring Smarter-than-human Intelligence Has a Positive Outcome

Biotechnology News

May 12, 2017/by Ariel Conn

GP-write and the Future of Biology

Imagine going to the airport, but instead of walking through…

December 30, 2016/by Ariel Conn

Why 2016 Was Actually a Year of Hope

December 30, 2016/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: FLI 2016 – A Year In Review

September 30, 2016/by Tucker Davey

Artificial Photosynthesis: Can We Harness the Energy of the Sun as Well as Plants?

May 10, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Forget the Cold War – Experts say Nuclear Weapons Are a Bigger Risk Today

Until recently, many Americans believed that nuclear weapons…

April 21, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War 2017

March 30, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Survivors Speak Out As UN Negotiates Nuke Ban

March 29, 2017/by a guest blogger

Testimony by Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Nuclear Bomb Testing Survivor

August 5, 2016/by Tucker Davey

Developing Countries Can’t Afford Climate Change

Developing countries currently cannot sustain themselves, let…

August 1, 2016/by Phil Torres

Op-ed: Being Alarmed Is Not the Same as Being an Alarmist

July 25, 2016/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Could an Earthquake Destroy Humanity?

July 22, 2016/by Phil Torres

Op-ed: Climate Change Is the Most Urgent Existential Risk

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.