A picture’s power to prevent
The most important legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is in images that could avert worse wars to come.
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Regulating military AI will be difficult. Here’s a way forward
If the international community doesn’t properly manage the development, proliferation, and use of military AI, international peace and stability could be at stake
Which drone future will Americans choose?
The decisions US leaders make now over unmanned aerial vehicles will have enormous consequences.
Defending against “The Entertainment”
Amid the published angst about AI and its hypothetical threats, more attention ought to be given to the threat that AI-enabled entertainment poses to our brains and our civilization.
PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight
In 2024, the Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight. This reflects the continued state of unprecedented danger the world faces. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, stewards of the Doomsday Clock, emphasized in their announcement that the Clock can be turned back, but governments and people need to take urgent action.
The struggle to ban killer robots
The campaign against lethal autonomous weapons is making progress, but to succeed it will have to answer some questions, including: What distinguishes killer software from non-killer software?
War is messy. AI can’t handle it.
As AI becomes part of military decision-making, it’s important to be wary of the pristine ideas of how technology can transform conflict.
How science-fiction tropes shape military AI
Pop culture influences how people think about artificial intelligence, and that spills over to how military planners think about war—obscuring the more mundane ways AI is likely to be used.
To kill killer robots, a brief boycott
If your university partners with a defense contractor to research autonomous weapons, do not expect AI researchers to sit still for it.
‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization
In this interview, AI godfather Yoshua Bengio discusses attention-grabbing headlines about AI, taboos among AI researchers, and why top AI researchers may disagree about the risks AI may pose to humanity.
Existential espionage: How intelligence gathering can protect humanity
Intelligence communities play an important role in analyzing, preventing, and leading efforts to minimize existential risks.
Artificial intelligence: a detailed explainer, with a human point of view
Is artificial intelligence, AI, a threat to our way of life, or a blessing? AI seeks to replicate and maybe replace what human intelligence does best: make complex decisions. Currently, human decision-making processes may include some means of AI as support or backup. But AI could also be “let out of the box” to act … Continued
Why superintelligence is a threat that should be taken seriously
A prominent skeptic says that artificial intelligence is nothing to worry about. Here’s why he’s wrong.
The critical human element in the machine age of warfare
As multiple militaries have begun to use AI to enhance their capabilities on the battlefield, several deadly mistakes have shown the risks of automation and semi-autonomous systems, even when human operators are notionally in the loop.
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence
No one global governance model for AI is perfect—or desirable. Instead, policy makers must pursue several models, each starting in a targeted and focused manner before evolving.
Trump orders some sort of vague action in the AI arms race
Through an executive order, President Donald Trump launched the American AI Initiative, further underscoring the importance of a group of technologies that are reshaping everything from medical diagnoses to war-fighting. The administration didn’t give many specifics in the order published Monday evening or details about funding for its various elements such as efforts to increase … Continued
An ambitious arms control agenda requires a new organization equal to the task
An exceedingly challenging agenda of urgent, important, and diverse arms control issues awaits the incoming Biden administration. To address it, the administration should consider the creation of a new agency to focus on cooperative threat reduction.