LAWS versus soft power

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A few days ago we highlighted the open letter presented at an AI conference by a thousand scientists, calling for a ban on the development of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). I suggested there would be blowback to the effect that a ban would not succeed. While anyone might have expected protests from the military […]

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Beware pre-Singularity marketing babble

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Whatever forecasts are made for the moment when machine intelligence exceeds the power of human intelligence, one can be sure that the hypesters will be out ahead of the science, babbling of capabilities achieved before they have even been thought through properly. An early example of this phenomenon can be found on a blog created […]

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