The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are avai….

We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem..

In the next century, we will be inventing radical new technologies - machine intelligence, perhaps nanotech, great advances in synthetic biology and ….

The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo devel….

How can we trace out the links between actions that people take today and really long-term outcomes for humanity - outcomes that stretch out indefini….

There are some problems that technology can't solve..

The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in p….

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress..

It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introd….

Are you living in a computer simulation?.

We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever..

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make..

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder..

Human nature is a work in progress..

The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting ch….

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data..

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep i….

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of st….

Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what ha….

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it..