Droughts are already making conflict more likely. As the world gets hotter, mayhem could spread

In this episode of the AI Alignment Podcast, Mike Johnson and Andrés Gómez Emilsson discuss consciousness, qualia, and the future of life.

The OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence promote artificial intelligence (AI) that is innovative and trustworthy and that respects human rights and democratic values. They were adopted on 22 May…

Investors are pushing companies of all sorts -- from retailers to restaurants -- to reveal how they contribute to climate change

Artificial intelligence’s vulnerability linked to its unique computer vision

Updates A new paper from MIRI researcher Vanessa Kosoy, presented at the ICLR SafeML workshop this week: "Delegative Reinforcement Learning: Learning to Avoid Traps with a Little Help." New research…

For the foreseeable future, AI needs humans in the loop – humans who enhance diversity and add resilience to bias.

The United Nations has debated whether to ban lethal autonomous weapons for years now. As countries make rapid progress in the autonomous capabilities of weapons systems, will any ban be too late to…

As artificial intelligence works its way into industries like healthcare and finance, governments around the world are increasingly investing in another of its applications: autonomous weapons…

The Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has some sobering news.

The report said reversing the trend will require nations to jointly confront the loss of biodiversity, along with climate change.

Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history -- and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark…

Describing nature’s decline as unprecedented and citing among many indicators, 1,000,000 species threatened with extinction, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem…

Powerful gene-editing tools have the potential to heal—or to harm. Now there’s a race to develop the antidote to the next bioweapon.

As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, programmers will expect to talk to computers like they talk to humans. Instead of typing out long, complex code, we’ll communicate with AI systems…

Machine learning, meet behavioral science.

Britain's parliament declared a symbolic climate change "emergency" on Wednesday, backing a call by opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for "rapid and dramatic action" to protect the environment…

Researchers propose a carbon-neutral “synthetic oil well” on every rooftop

The bad news is that our slow-motion ecological catastrophe demands new ways of thinking. The good news? We’ve faced the end of the world before.

The side effects of climate change remain relatively unknown, but as Fran Moore and Nick Obradovich explain, it will impact every facet of our lives.

We’ve created Musenet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles.

Technology could one day be used to provide a voice for people who can’t talk.

In this episode of the AI Alignment Podcast, Rohin Shah develops an overview of technical AI research directions and philosophies.