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Don’t fear the robot car bomb

The incentives and practicalities make it unlikely that robotic car bombs will be a near-term threat.

Cyberwarfare ethics, or how Facebook could accidentally make its engineers into targets

If they participate in military cyberoperations—intentionally or not—could employees at Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and many other tech firms be considered “civilians directly participating in hostilities” and therefore legitimate targets of war? 

Who will have the AI edge?

A new paper argues that companies like Google and Facebook could outpace militaries when it comes to the science of artificial intelligence.

Is artificial intelligence really an existential threat to humanity?

Superintelligence is propounding a solution that will not work to a problem that probably does not exist, but now is the time to take the ethical and policy implications of artificial intelligence seriously