AI is a shiny distraction from college funding. Workload is not the issue. The issue is 16-19 year olds aren’t funded for ...

Or it could finally realize the paper-clip scenario, in which we give AI free rein to solve one problem, like making paper clips, and it diverts all global resources toward that problem ...

the "paperclip problem" to be exact (the company that created you is even called Paperclip International). Hypothesised by philosopher Nick Bostrom, it suggests that if an AI were given a ...

And judging by the trajectory of the latest "reasoning" models, which the likes of Google and AI have designed to "think" through a problem before answering, the problem is getting worse — not ...

The risk is that the AI works diligently towards this goal without any of the common-sense human intelligence would use. It therefore ends up converting the entire world and its resources into one ...