Pandora's Brain

A new book by Nick Bostrom is a major publishing and cultural event. His 2014 book “Superintelligence” helped to wake the world up to the impact of the first Big Bang in AI, the arrival of De...

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The first political party to be called populist was the People’s Party, a powerful but short-lived force in late 19th-century America. It was a left-wing movement which opposed the oligarchies ...

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Imagine that you and I are in my laboratory, and I show you a Big Red Button. I tell you that if I press this button, then you and all your family and friends – in fact the whole human race –...

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The taboo is broken. The possibility that AI is an existential risk has now been voiced in public by many of the world’s political leaders. Although the question has been discussed in Silicon V...

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After Silicon Valley, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may be the most future-oriented and optimistic place on the planet. Futurism and techno-optimism are natural mindsets in a country which has p...

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The law is a promising area for AI The legal profession is rarely accused of being at the cutting edge of technological development. Lawyers may not still use quill pens, but they’re not exactl...

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Martin O’Dea is the CEO of Longevity Events Limited, and the principal organiser of the annual Longevity Summit Dublin. In a past life, O’Dea lectured on business strategy at Dublin Business ...

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Kindred Capital Venture capital is the lifeblood of technology startups, including young companies deploying advanced AI. John Cassidy is a Partner at Kindred Capital, a UK-based venture capital ...

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An enthusiastic transhumanist One of the most intriguing possibilities raised by the exponential growth in the power of our technology is that within the lifetimes of people already born, death m...

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Collar colour Not long ago, people assumed that repetitive, blue-collar jobs would be the first to be disrupted by advancing artificial intelligence. Since the arrival of generative AI, it looks ...

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