Preventing an AI-related catastrophe (Article)

Today’s release is a professional reading of our new problem profile on <b>preventing an AI-related catastrophe</b>, written by Benjamin Hilton.<p> We expect that there will be substantial progress in AI in the next few decades, potentially even to the point where machines come to outperform humans in many, if not all, tasks. This could have enormous benefits, helping to solve currently intractable global problems, but could also pose severe risks. These risks could arise accidentally (for example, if we don’t find technical solutions to concerns about the safety of AI systems), or deliberately (for example, if A...