A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum. It didn’t take long for the LLM to experience a full meltdown straight ...

Existential therapy is a philosophical approach to mental health care that helps people explore the meaning of their lives and choices. It asks clients to think deeply about their beliefs and values, ...

Concerns and uncertainty about the viability of continued existence on the planet are central to the urgency of the climate crisis and can be contextualized within the philosophical idea of ...

Try using this method to establish the following. You might find it useful to turn some of the examples from the last section into named theorems, as we did with fn_ub_add, or you can insert the ...

Senior Research Fellow in AI Accountability, Queensland University of Technology There are many claims to sort through in the current era of ubiquitous artificial intelligence (AI) products, ...

How to factor the new technology into your strategy by Scott Cook, Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright By making it vastly easier and cheaper to create or improve products and services, generative AI has ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the first, and so far only, use of atomic weapons in war. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. A second bomb was ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...

It’s common for people to experience existential dread at some point in their lives. But when left unaddressed, experienced frequently, or worsened by stress and other factors, it could lead to an ...

Google’s former AI chief, Geoffrey Hinton distinguishes between two ways in which AI poses an existential threat to humanity. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP) ...