Concerns that AI will kill humanity hit a fever pitch, fueling calls for an AI emergency brake, or kill switch. Experts say kill switches are difficult to implement because of the scope of AI ...

Nature examines whether the technology might spell the end for humans, and why AI companies are calling for a slowdown. Concerns that artificial intelligence might kill us all are blowing up right now ...

You had a lot of questions about the recent claims that humanity is facing an existential risk from AI. We had a go at answering a few. On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables ...

Calls to slow the development of frontier artificial intelligence, the industry’s most powerful models, have grown much louder in the past week. One idea keeps coming up as a way to break the glass in ...

A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system. Only no one really knows how. By Dylan ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. When Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic last week, he did not originally ...

From a dangerous new bioweapon to total societal breakdown, is a ‘superintelligent’ AI capable of wiping out humanity? Earlier this month, artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from ...

An artificial intelligence "kill switch" which can be checked by a third party may need to be mandatory for companies, a co-founder of one of the world's largest AI firms has told the BBC. Jack Clark, ...