Sigal Samuel
Senior Reporter
Latest articles by Sigal Samuel
The holy grail for understanding the start of the Anthropocene lies at the bottom of a lake in Canada.
“Arms race” is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one.
Reports that we’re becoming crappier humans over time are greatly exaggerated.
A revolutionary SETI experiment seeks to find out how earthlings might respond to a signal from aliens.
AI for the moral enhancement of humans? Sounds tempting. But we shouldn’t be so quick to automate our reasoning.
An AI-powered “brain decoder” can now read your thoughts with surprising accuracy.
It’s time for AI regulators to move fast and break things.
AI chatbots won’t destroy human originality. But they may homogenize our lives and flatten our reality.
We got GPT-4. We could stop there for now, placing a moratorium on new AI systems more powerful than that.
Pumping the brakes on artificial intelligence could be the best thing we ever do for humanity.
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