Looking forward from the past

Insights from scientific and social thinkers in the past could offer clues about tackling the implications of AI in the future.

The rise of AI agents

The rise of generative artificial intelligence has captivated public attention over the last couple of years, but the future may be dominated by the rise of AI agents – autonomous systems that can make decisions and take actions on our behalf without direct human input.

AI in the workplace

AI “assistants” promise to increase worker productivity by handling repetitive tasks, but what do people think about them in practice?

Move over, human

A new artificial intelligence model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”, the holy grail of AI researchers – or has it?

Artificial selection

The replacement of Darwinian natural selection by intelligent design could become a reality in our lifetimes through genetic engineering, the augmentation of people with machines and even the creation of sentient inorganic silicon-based life itself.

AI’s use in cyber-crime

Artificial intelligence is poised to disrupt every industry including cyber-security, with both criminals and analysts using open source tools to escalate their mutual struggle for supremacy.

The alien language of AI

Decoding emergent languages produced by artificial intelligence systems could help us understand how self-driving cars coordinate their movements, how AI systems make decisions and even speak to aliens, if and when contact is made.

AI and humans – who will domesticate who?

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence technology is dominating the headlines, but might a future suffused with AI change human evolution too?

On the road to Gundag

AI is already used throughout rural communities from precision agriculture to self-driving trucks. But we need to help regional small businesses benefit from AI while avoiding the harmful aspects.

The dawn of ‘superintelligence’

OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says superintelligence may only be “a few thousand days” away – but is he right, and will it be safe if he is?

Have a new kidney – thanks to AI

A new artificial intelligence tool developed by an international team renal doctors internationally will help predict and potentially improve outcomes for kidney transplant patients.

Trust but verify

Regulating a field as dynamic and wide-ranging as AI will require ongoing adaptation, and iterative updates that learn from past experience.