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In an important new book, US economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson propose ways in which digital technology can be repurposed for human flourishing as well as private profit “Those who cannot remember the past,” wrote the American philosopher George Santayana in 1905, “are condemned to repeat it.” And now, 118 years later, here come two American economists with the same message, only with added salience, for they are addressing a world in which a small number of gia

Scientists are warning machine learning will soon outsmart humans – maybe it’s time for us to take noteLast Monday an eminent, elderly British scientist lobbed a grenade into the febrile anthill of researchers and corporations currently obsessed with artificial intelligence or AI (aka, for the most part, a technology called machine learning). The scientist was Geoffrey Hinton, and the bombshell was the news that he was leaving Google, where he had been doing great work on machine lea

Jürgen Schmidhuber believes AI will progress to the point where it surpasses human intelligence and will pay no attention to peopleGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe man once described as the father of artificial intelligence is breaking ranks with many of his contemporaries who are fearful of the AI arms race, saying what is coming is inevitable and we should learn to embrace it.Prof Jürgen Schmidhuber’s work on neural networks in the 19