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Autonomous Weapons Open Letter: Global Health Community

Hosting, signature verification and list management are supported by FLI; for administrative questions about this letter, please contact Dr. Emilia Javorsky. Given our commitment to do no harm, the global health community has a long history of successful advocacy against inhumane weapons, and the World and American Medical Associations have called for bans on nuclear, […]

UN Ban on Nuclear Weapons Open Letter

Click here to see this page in other languages : Russian  Nuclear arms are the only weapons of mass destruction not yet prohibited by an international convention, even though they are the most destructive and indiscriminate weapons ever created. We scientists bear a special responsibility for nuclear weapons, since it was scientists who invented them […]

Autonomous Weapons: Pledge

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to play an increasing role in military systems. There is an urgent opportunity and necessity for citizens, policymakers, and leaders to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI. In this light, we the undersigned agree that the decision to take a human life should never be delegated to a […]

Op-ed: Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated?

Click here to see this page in other languages: Chinese   By Anthony Aguirre, Ariel Conn, and Max Tegmark Should artificial intelligence be regulated? Can it be regulated? And if so, what should those regulations look like? These are difficult questions to answer for any technology still in development stages – regulations, like those on the food, […]

EA Global X Boston Conference

The first EA Global X conference, EAGxBoston, is being held at MIT on April 30th, 12:30-6:30pm. Boston EAs have created an incredible lineup bringing together a who’s who of researchers, EAs, EA orgs, and up-and-coming orgs including: Dean Karlan (Yale, Innovations for Poverty Action) Joshua Greene (Harvard, Moral Cognition Lab) Rachel Glennerster (MIT, Poverty Action […]

Research priorities for robust and beneficial AI

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Digital Economy Open Letter

An open letter by a team of economists about AI’s future impact on the economy. It includes specific policy suggestions to ensure positive economic impact. (Jun 4, 2015)