Right now, leading artificial intelligence models need human supervision to improve—but a popular theory known as “recursive self-improvement” imagines a future world where AI could become fully ...

Apple continues to face backlash for removing ICE-tracking apps like ICEBlock from the App Store, a drastic step that seemed to be triggered by Trump administration claims that the apps endangered ...

What happens when artificial intelligence systems start to think for themselves, make themselves more powerful and escape human control in their quest to achieve superintelligence? That prospect has ...

There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I. Artificial intelligence labs are on the verge of handing over the training of A.I. to A.I. We should stop them. There’s a chasm right now between ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Effective altruism is back in the spotlight amid a fight over AI safety and regulation. Its central idea is that people should use ...

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“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk. Jeff Clune, a computer scientist and ...

How do you get from a chatbot that sometimes makes things up to a machine that humans might struggle to control? There are several steps in that argument, and plenty of uncertainty. But an idea known ...