Incipient AI-arms race?

By Anja Kaspersen The machines rise, subjugating humanity. It’s a science fiction trope that’s almost as old as machines themselves. The doomsday scenarios spun around this theme are so outlandish—like The Matrix, in which human-created artificial intelligence plugs humans into a simulated reality to harvest energy from their bodies—it’s difficult to visualize them as serious …

The Ethical Underbelly of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

By Mildred Solomon We live in an age of transformative scientific powers, capable of changing the very nature of the human species and radically remaking the planet itself. Advances in information technologies and artificial intelligence are combining with advances in the biological sciences—including genetics, reproductive technologies, neuroscience, synthetic biology—as well as advances in the physical …