Constantly improving AI would create a positive feedback loop: an intelligence explosion. We would be no match for it.

Accurate forecasting has long been an art and a science, but when the stakes are high, it is smart to make it into a tournament. William Culbert Researchers recently systematically surveyed two ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Nobel Prize Winner and ‘godfather’ of artificial intelligence Geoffrey Hinton warns if AI continues to develop without appropriate guardrails, a worst-case scenario could unfold and lead to human ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

A new book about AI has a provocative title: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue that the development of artificial ...