Introduction The Future of Life Institute wrote an open letter titled “Pause Giant AI Experiments” on March 28, 2023, as a means to “call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least six months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” The letter itself had [...]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic and has gained new attention with the likes of ChatGPT and Dall-E. These technologies are already revolutionizing the way we live and work. Notice that I’m using present tense. The AI revolution has started, it is well underway, and it IS impacting [...]
Introduction Consciousness. Self-Awareness. Sentience. For as long as humans have thought about these concepts, we have attributed them to ourselves … and only to ourselves. We believe they are somehow unique to us and what truly makes us, us. We are proud of these attributes, even arrogant at times, [...]
Introduction Europe has always been ahead of the United States in regulating emerging technology and the internet. One reason for their maturity with digital governance could be the differences in historical experiences. European countries generally place a higher value on privacy because their long histories have often included group [...]