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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 24, 2018/by a guest blogger

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

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

Featured Stories

June 14, 2018/by Lucas Perry

Podcast: Astronomical Future Suffering and Superintelligence with Kaj Sotala

In a classic taxonomy of risks developed by Nick Bostrom…

May 31, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Nuclear Dilemmas, From North Korea to Iran

April 27, 2018/by Ariel Conn

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

April 4, 2018/by Lucas Perry

Podcast: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inferring Human Preferences with Dylan Hadfield-Menell

March 30, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Navigating AI Safety – From Malicious Use to Accidents

Artificial Intelligence News

April 4, 2018/by Ariel Conn

AI and Robotics Researchers Boycott South Korea Tech Institute Over Development of AI Weapons Technology

UPDATE 4-9-18: The boycott against KAIST has ended. The press…

March 15, 2018/by Tucker Davey

How AI Handles Uncertainty: An Interview With Brian Ziebart

February 28, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: AI and the Value Alignment Problem with Meia Chita-Tegmark and Lucas Perry

February 27, 2018/by Jessica Cussins

How to Prepare for the Malicious Use of AI

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)

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

December 21, 2017/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Beneficial AI and Existential Hope in 2018

December 8, 2017/by Ariel Conn

ICAN Awarded Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, Here’s Why

March 8, 2018/by Kirsten Gronlund

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

The Paris Climate Agreement seeks to keep global warming well…

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

November 20, 2017/by a guest blogger

Harvesting Water Out of Thin Air: A Solution to Water Shortage Crisis?

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.