7+ hour, 44+ min ago   (635+ words) In an unprecedented development, 1,200 CEOs, CTOs, programmers, scientists, and AI safety officers sent a letter to Congress asking the government to help them build the tools needed to slow down AI development if it ever becomes necessary. The statement, titled…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (573+ words) How best to fight a war against drones? To date, the U.S. and most nations have been using expensive interceptors to shoot them down. This dynamic is known in military strategy as a severe cost asymmetry or the "cost-exchange problem." That…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (640+ words) I'm old enough to remember when television entered mainstream homes in the 1950s; critics, cultural commentators, educators, and concerned citizens expressed widespread worry that television would transform viewers into passive, mind-numbed "automatons," "zombies," or "boob tube" addicts. During the 1950s — a decade…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1339+ words) I have developed something of a reputation as the “anti-AI guy,” primarily because I refuse to join the technological priesthood in singing hymns to artificial intelligence while a handful of billionaires quietly purchase the printing press, the library, the factory,…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (495+ words) Of the concerns they raise, some are worth considering, including unresolved questions as to whether humans can reproduce safely in low-gravity conditions and whether babies can develop normally in such environments. They do write, however, that the Chinese are already…...

3+ day, 53+ min ago   (481+ words) It couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch. Some of Hollywood’s A-listers are the victims of a massive data breach tied to an online database that’s connected with Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Film Festival. According to reports, a cybersecurity researcher…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (136+ words) Yeah, I don't know what it means either. And a little longer soundtrack. I'm into Earth pictures today. With a little luck this will be old news by the time you see Sky Candy today. Looks like a fun neighborhood....

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (521+ words) How will the Earth end? That's been the subject of novels, movies, plays, short stories, and myths for centuries. The question is also tied to our deeply held religious beliefs. We're familiar with some of the more probable end-of-the-world scenarios....

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (788+ words) Environmental and scientific organizations are uniting to try to stop SpaceX's Elon Musk and Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos from placing one million data center satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Musk and Bezos both have considerable stakes in AI companies,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (661+ words) A year ago, CEOs were warning that AI would be responsible for a job apocalypse in America. Ford Chief Executive Jim Farley said, “Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S," adding:…...