Afew years ago the cosmologist Max Tegmark found himself weeping outside the Science Museum in South Kensington. He’d just visited an exhibition that represented the growth in human knowledge, ...

The Future of Life Institute was founded in 2013 to "mitigate the existential risks" posed to humanity by emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence. Founded by MIT professor Max ...

‘Prediction is very difficult,” the great physicist Niels Bohr is supposed to have said, “especially when it’s about the future.” That hasn’t stopped a wave of ­­popular-science books from giving it ...

‘Nothing in the laws of physics that says we can’t build machines much smarter than us’ ‘Nothing in the laws of physics that says we can’t build machines much smarter than us’ The Verge chatted with ...