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 ...

The Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston receives funding from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Nir Eisikovits serves as the data ethics advisor to Hour25AI, a startup dedicated to ...

Who’s afraid of the big bad bots? A lot of people, it seems. The number of high-profile names that have now made public pronouncements or signed open letters warning of the catastrophic dangers of ...

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 ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The rise of ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence systems has been ...