AI Leaders Sign Open Letter

Published:

January 11, 2015

Author:

Jesse Galef

Top AI researchers from industry and academia have signed an open letter

arguing that rapid progress in AI is making it timely to research not only how to make AI more capable, but also how to make it robust and beneficial.

You can read more about the open letter here.

Sample media coverage: Popular Science, CIO, BBC, CNBC, The Independent, The Verge, ZDNet, CNET, The Telegraph, World News Views, The Economic Times, Industry Week, Live Science.

This content was first published at futureoflife.org on January 11, 2015.

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