On Christmas Eve, December 24, 2013, Queen Elizabeth II issued a royal pardon to British mathematician Alan Turing. Turing is best known for his development of the Bombe, a machine that successfully ...

Ruth Bourne, Jewish veteran of Bletchley Park who worked on Turing’s Bombe machines She took on anti-social hours, no prospect of promotion, and an oath of secrecy which, if broken, would result in ...

Stuart Russell explores the future of Artificial Intelligence and asks; how can we get our relationship with it right? Professor Russell is founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial ...

The source of many disagreements is that people rely, often implicitly, on two radically different notions of “intelligence." ...

It is an obvious extension of this research to convert static DNA structures into machines. DNA is not the natural choice of material to build active structures with because it lacks the structural ...

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Stuart Russell suggests a way forward for human control over super-powerful artificial intelligence. He argues for the abandonment of the current “standard model” of AI, proposing instead a new model ...