One of the world’s most celebrated philosophers has apologized for writing a racist email in which he used an appalling racial slur and said he believed it was “true” that “Blacks are more stupid than ...

Fretting about AI taking your job is so passé. At best, it will upend society as we know it. At worst, it could kill and dismember us to make paperclips. Gainful employment will be the least of your ...

In medieval Europe, peasants had a vision of paradise that they called the Land of Cockaigne. It was a mythical place of plenty, where the walls were made of sausages and the sky rained cheese. Nearly ...

Once again, here we are with another artificial intelligence news story. These stories are the dominating topic in the tech news cycle, and there is no sign of that stopping any time soon. Earlier, we ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

Professor Nick Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis posits a level of technological development that results in societal collapse. One of Bostrom's proposed solutions to avoid a dystopian scenario is ...

Put your doomsday caps on, everyone. Starting tonight at 9pm EST (6pm PST) to 10pm EST (7pm PST), I’ll be on Huffington Post Live talking about existential risks to the future of humanity. I’ll be ...

One of the world’s foremost philosophers of artificial intelligence is arguing that some chatbots might exhibit glimpses of sentience — but that doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it means. In an ...