In medieval Europe, peasants had a vision of paradise that they called the Land of Cockaigne. It was a mythical place of plenty, where the walls were made of sausages and the sky rained cheese. Nearly ...

One of the world’s most celebrated philosophers has apologized for writing a racist email in which he used an appalling racial slur and said he believed it was “true” that “Blacks are more stupid than ...

One of the world’s foremost philosophers of artificial intelligence is arguing that some chatbots might exhibit glimpses of sentience — but that doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it means. In an ...

What if reality is not reality at all, but a simulation so advanced that no one inside it could ever tell the difference?

Fretting about AI taking your job is so passé. At best, it will upend society as we know it. At worst, it could kill and dismember us to make paperclips. Gainful employment will be the least of your ...

According to philosopher Nick Bostrom, a novel technological discovery may one day devastate human civilization. In Bostrom’s “vulnerable world” theory, only extraordinary interventions — such as ...

Once again, here we are with another artificial intelligence news story. These stories are the dominating topic in the tech news cycle, and there is no sign of that stopping any time soon. Earlier, we ...

Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom believes AI has already started to show small amounts of sentience. He cautions against the next step in AI, which could grow into the programs beginning to understand ...

Professor Nick Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis posits a level of technological development that results in societal collapse. One of Bostrom's proposed solutions to avoid a dystopian scenario is ...

A conversation with Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford, who has spent decades preparing for the day artificial intelligence is capable of anything the human brain can do. By Lauren Jackson The ...