Humanity isn’t ready for the coming intelligence explosion

Humanity isn’t ready for the coming intelligence explosion

We must find a way to control AI, then to live side by side with it, writes Will Marshall

SOCIETY DICTATES that the acceptable risk of catastrophic meltdown for a nuclear power plant is roughly one in a million. Experts in artificial intelligence estimate the risk of an AI-caused catastrophic event at 10-50%. Strikingly, this concern is being openly voiced by the very people who have the strongest incentives to project confidence rather than alarm: the founders of the largest AI laboratories.

The winner of the run-off must rebuild what this election campaign has broken, writes Juan Manuel Santos, a former president

Tech must reorient towards moral purpose for it—and humankind—to flourish, argues Glen Weyl

America’s bellicosity combined with FIFA’s dysfunctionality spells trouble, reckon the Soccernomics podcasters

Talk of an envoy for negotiations is premature, writes Anders Fogh Rasmussen

FIFA could emulate other sports by tweaking rules to generate more excitement, writes James Tozer

The benefits did not just “trickle down”—they poured, writes Arthur Laffer