Artificial Intelligence

The Mirage of Artificial Intelligence

2021-03-22

Military men still dream of war machines driven by artificial intelligence (AI). However, the dream remains just that – a dream. Even as computer technology improves, scientists discover that the concept of intelligence...

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The grim fate that could be ‘worse than extinction’

2020-10-25

What would it take for a global totalitarian government to rise to power indefinitely? This nightmare scenario may be closer than first appears.

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The Rise of Chinese AI in the Gulf: A Renewal of China’s ‘Serbia Model’

2020-10-20

Already a global leader in 5G infrastructure, China is investing heavily in a broader range of advanced technologies and seeking to introduce them globally as a means of achieving even...

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AI Needs to Grow Up and Stop Chasing Its Long Tail

2020-09-24

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has evolved based on ‘deep neural networks’, which are modelled on our brain structures and have an insatiable appetite for data.

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The Coming Global Technology Fracture

2020-09-11

The international trade regime we now have, expressed in the rules of the World Trade Organization and other agreements, is not of this world...

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The Robot Question

2020-08-11

Although robots that can perform human labor will put downward pressure on wages in the short term, they also will increase the rate of profit, encouraging more investment and a recovery in the wage rate....

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Dystopia Is Arriving in Stages

2020-01-05

Science fiction has a warning about developing mind-reading technology without any proper framework for how to control it.

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The Coming AI Spring

2019-10-15

Artificial intelligence can generate tremendous value for us all, if policymakers and businesses act swiftly and smartly to capture its full benefits and mitigate the inevitable risks...

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How AI Can Promote Social Good

2019-09-25

Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve billions of peoples lives but only if it creates and delivers value directly to those most in need, rather than fattening corporate profits

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How an AI Utopia Would Work

2019-07-17

After centuries of industrialism, we are now on the cusp of a technological revolution that has the potential to abolish all necessary work, giving rise to societies built around leisure and a classical ideal of freedom. The biggest hurdle to realizing su

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Journalism’s Risky Tech Attraction

2019-03-18

There is nothing wrong with using technology to solve problems, including those created by technology, or to give a company a competitive edge.

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The Social Solution to Automation

2019-03-05

n our efficiency-obsessed society, new technologies are deployed with the single-minded objective of boosting productivity and eliminating the need for human labor

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AI for Human Development

2019-01-06

Technologies powered by artificial intelligence are being applied to some of the world’s most challenging human-development issues

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Preventing an AI Apocalypse

2018-05-20

The view that AI-driven machines will outsmart humanity, take over the world, and kill us all

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