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Governing AI for Humanity: A Compelling Roadmap from the United Nations

Does the key to AI superalignment lie in the science of cooperation?

Pope Francis: Artificial intelligence ought to serve our best human potential and our highest aspirations, not compete with them

AIs using lab-grown "brains" are getting closer

An audio guide to emerging tech and the future

Are physical 3D artificial brains the next step in AI?

What happens when AI and cooperation science collide?

The Year that Generative AI Changed the World

Why everything you've ever heard about AI risk is wrong

Could OpenAI have benefitted from this tool for navigating complex risks?

What could Sam Altman's departure from OpenAI mean for societally beneficial AI?

Navigating “orphan risks” has never been more important for tech companies — especially around AI

A first look at OpenAI's new customizable versions of ChatGPT

Waymo safety study shows not all self-driving cars are created equal

Is deep and meaningful human-AI cooperation possible?

An IPCC For AI Is A Failure Mode

Don't Panic: Elon Musk launches a new AI based on the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Time-specific actions in the White House AI executive order

White House goes all in on responsible innovation and artificial intelligence

Category Confusion Complicates Efforts to Regulate AI

Exploring the cutting edge of AI and consciousness

$10 million for AI safety research

Flattening the learning distribution curve using ChatGPT

Do AI’s dream of electric people?

Marc Andreessen: Ditch sustainability and technology ethics if you want a better future

Recommended listening: The Rise of AI on the Zombified podcast

A guide to responsible innovation like no other ...

Looking to the Future: The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 14

How the 2023 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Captures the Transformative Promise of Nanotechnology

Responsible AI: Lessons from Nanotechnology

Living By More Than Science Alone and the movie Contact. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 13

The new AI movie The Creator is a must-see for anyone grappling with what it might mean to be human in an AI future

Building a better future's tough when you don't know where you're going

Riding the Wave of Climate Change and the movie The Day After Momorrow. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 12

What do college students really think about ChatGPT?

Will AI transform how we learn in the future?

Weaponizing the Genome and the movie Inferno. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 11

It's time to get serious about artificial intelligence and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Can Large Language Models Reason?

Living in a Material World and the movie The Man in the White Suit. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 10

Why public engagement is so important for advanced science and technology

Welcome to the Singularity and the movie Transcendence. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 9

ChatGPT Enterprise could be a game changer for universities

Dear Mr. Musk, Can I Have My Book Back Please?

AI and the Art of Manipulation and the movie Ex Machina. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 8

Could we build conscious AIs in the near future? Quite possibly

The incomparable messiness of the provenance of ideas

Being Human in an Augmented Future and the movie Ghost in the Shell. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 7

Riding the AI Tiger

If you're obsessed with ChatGPT's accuracy, you're missing the point

Social Inequity in an Age of Technological Extremes and the movie Elysium. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 6

Thinking differently about AI and risk

Pharmaceutically-enhanced intelligence and the movie Limitless. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 5

Fifteen questions every college professor should be asking about ChatGPT and other generative AI

Artificial intelligence themes, narratives, and the future of being human

The unimagined preposterousness of counterfeit people

Predicting Criminal Intent and the movie Minority Report. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future, Episode 4

ASU allows ChatGPT to be used in law school applications

Oppenheimer is as relevant to the future of AI as it is nuclear weapons

A Cautionary Tale of Human Cloning and the movie Never Let Me Go. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future, Episode 3

Will Elon Musk's "Maximally Curious" AI really turn out to be safe?

ChatGPT Created My Course – Now It’s Teaching It!

The Rise of Resurrection Biology and the movie Jurassic Park. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future, Episode 2

Regulating Frontier AI: To Open Source or Not?

What does EU Artificial Intelligence regulation mean for AI in education?

Jumpstarting AI Governance

In The Beginning. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 1

A new podcast on tech, society, and sci-fi movies

WEF Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2023 focus on AI, health, and sustainability

Resources and exercises for developing and honing ChatGPT prompt skills

Recommended reading and listening for a summer interlude

Why the recent statement on the risk of extinction from AI is important, and why I didn't sign it

Is biological computing the future of AI?

Leading AI expert says we should we be acting now to avoid future risks of "rogue AIs" — is he right?

Can large language models be used for predictive policing? And if so, should we be worried?

Some thoughts on yesterday's historic Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of AI

Respectfully Erik Schmidt, industry can't get AI governance right on its own!

Unraveling the Luddite Narrative

This is not your "traditional" prompt engineering!

US White House Embraces Responsible Innovation as Society Faces an AI Tsunami

Tipping Points and Broken Symmetries

Catalyzing transformative conversations about the future ... with pizza?

In Bill Joy's "Why The Future Doesn't Need us" AI is nowhere, and everywhere

Gettin' AI Reet in T'Schools: Na's t'Time

A short video primer on AI risks

Working with students to develop professional ChatGPT skills

Universities need to be investing in responsible AI now more than ever

AI and the Art of Manipulation

Did Chinese scientists gene edit tardigrade DNA into human stem cells?

Navigating Advanced Technology Transitions

As AI goes to Washington, what's being missed?

CIFAR launches bold new lines of inquiry on the future of being human

Can ChatGPT adversely impact mental health?

What are the alternatives to calling for a pause on giant AI experiments?

Welcome to The Future of Being Human!

Maximizing Value in the Evolving Landscape of Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty

Can ChatGPT take the pain out of annual academic reviews?