Otto Barten is director of the Existential Risk Observatory, a nonprofit aiming to reduce existential risk by informing the public debate. Technological progress can excite us, politics can infuriate ...

In “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the HAL 9000 was built to be infallible. Instead, it became dangerously misaligned with its human operators: It prioritized its survival over the humans’ safety. Though ...

What if the greatest threat to human creativity isn’t that artificial intelligence (AI) will surpass us but that it will leave us wondering what remains uniquely ours? As machines begin to master the ...

AI was never just a tool to make us more productive, or to help us do ‘good’. It was always also an expression of who we are and what we are becoming. Photo: 7/31/1946-New York. This photo of "Miss ...