Entries by Ariel Conn

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

July 18, 2018 in , , /by

Leading AI companies and researchers take concrete action against killer robots, vowing never to develop them. Stockholm, Sweden (July 18, 2018) — After years of voicing concerns, AI leaders have, for the first time, taken concrete action against lethal autonomous weapons, signing a pledge to “neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or […]

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

June 28, 2018 in , , /by

How are emerging technologies like artificial intelligence shaping our world and how we interact with one another? What do different demographics think about AI risk and a robot-filled future? And how can the average citizen contribute not only to the AI discussion, but AI’s development? On this month’s podcast, Ariel spoke with Charlie Oliver and […]

Podcast: Nuclear Dilemmas, From North Korea to Iran

May 31, 2018 in , , /by

 With the U.S. pulling out of the Iran deal and canceling (and potentially un-canceling) the summit with North Korea, nuclear weapons have been front and center in the news this month. But will these disagreements lead to a world with even more nuclear weapons? And how did the recent nuclear situations with North Korea […]

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

April 4, 2018 in , /by

UPDATE 4-9-18: The boycott against KAIST has ended. The press release for the ending of the boycott explained: “More than 50 of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics researchers from 30 different countries have declared they would end a boycott of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea’s top […]

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

February 28, 2018 in , , , /by

What does it mean to create beneficial artificial intelligence? How can we expect to align AIs with human values if humans can’t even agree on what we value? Building safe and beneficial AI involves tricky technical research problems, but it also requires input from philosophers, ethicists, and psychologists on these fundamental questions. How can we […]

Research for Beneficial Artificial Intelligence

December 27, 2017 /4 Comments/in , , /by

Click here to see this page in other languages: Chinese  Research Goal: The goal of AI research should be to create not undirected intelligence, but beneficial intelligence. It’s no coincidence that the first Asilomar Principle is about research. On the face of it, the Research Goal Principle may not seem as glamorous or exciting as some […]

When Should Machines Make Decisions?

November 30, 2017 /3 Comments/in , , /by

Click here to see this page in other languages: Chinese   Russian  Human Control: Humans should choose how and whether to delegate decisions to AI systems, to accomplish human-chosen objectives. When is it okay to let a machine make a decision instead of a person? Most of us allow Google Maps to choose the best route to a […]

Help Support FLI This Giving Tuesday

November 27, 2017 in /by

We’ve accomplished a lot. FLI has only been around for a few years, but during that time, we’ve: Helped mainstream AI safety research, Funded 37 AI safety research grants, Launched multiple open letters that have brought scientists and the public together for the common cause of a beneficial future, Drafted the 23 Asilomar Principles which […]

Three Tweets to Midnight: Nuclear Crisis Stability and the Information Ecosystem

November 15, 2017 in /by

The following policy memo was written and posted by the Stanley Foundation. Download the PDF (252K) How might a nuclear crisis play out in today’s media environment? What dynamics in this information ecosystem—with social media increasing the velocity and reach of information, disrupting journalistic models, creating potent vectors for disinformation, and changing how political leaders […]

ICAN Wins Nobel Peace Prize

October 6, 2017 in , /by

We at FLI offer an excited congratulations to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), this year’s winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. We could not be more honored to have had the opportunity to work with ICAN during their campaign to ban nuclear weapons. Over 70 years have passed since the bombs were […]