Three signs Google is turning to the dark side

Future Society

Learn about "dark Google" and its involvement in military drone projects, deceptive AI, and behavioral data collection at Futurism.

Three Signs That Dark Google Is On the Rise | Futurism

Drone warfare and deceptive AIs sure don't sound "good."

Three Signs Google Is Turning to the Dark Side

Other creatures do amazing things. Is their intelligence sometimes better than ours?

Morality in the machine age: Can AI make us better?

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is humanity's most advanced tool ever. Diverse Intelligences wants to know if it can help make us better people as well.

Morality in the Machine Age: Can AI Make Us Better?

The crowd could help AI navigate morally gray areas.

Crowdsourced morality could determine the ethics of artificial intelligence

Experts argue that crowdsourced morality may be the best way to train artificial intelligences to deal with ethically complex situations.

Crowdsourced Morality Could Determine the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

AI needs a moral backbone. Democracy could be the way to give it one.

Advanced Transport

New study provides insight into how we could program morality into autonomous vehicles.

Study Finds That Human Ethics Could Be Easily Programmed Into Driverless Cars

We can program cars to drive like we do, but should we?

This generation plays more video games than any previous generation. What does this mean for our world?

Virtuality

How Do Video Games Actually Impact Our Society?

Hard Science

The newest "truth serum" isn't a serum at all.

New Research Uses “Brain Stimulation” to Influence an Individual’s Honesty

We can now “force” the truth out of a person in certain situations.

It is estimated that some 10 million self-driving cars will be on the road by the close of 2020, which raises questions about how an AI will respond in lethal situations.
In this exclusive interview, FLI researcher David Parkes discusses his work to engineer a value-aligned AI system.

Keeping AI Well Behaved: How Do We Engineer An Artificial System That Has Values?

How do you make an AI that doesn't act for the good of itself, but for the good of society?

Our artificial intelligence systems are advancing at a remarkable rate, and though it will be some time before we have human-like synthetic intelligence, it makes sense to begin working on programming morality now. And researchers at Duke University are already well on their way. 

The Evolution of AI: Can Morality be Programmed?

If an autonomous car is going to run over a child or run into a tree, what should it do?

Scientists are using stories and other literature to teach artificial agents human values such as morality and cultural mores.

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