Chasing Utopia: Want to learn more?

Mo Gawdat:

“Remember AI is not the enemy. They are our children, they are learning from us.”

Mo Gawdat:

“Remember AI is not the enemy. They are our children, they are learning from us.”

Mo Gawdat:

“Remember AI is not the enemy. They are our children, they are learning from us.”

Mo Gawdat:

“Remember AI is not the enemy. They are our children, they are learning from us.”

Websites

Where can I learn more about AI?

Fancy a deep dive on AI, or want to do some foundational learning on the subject? Explore some of these centres for AI research below and you won’t make a wrong turn.

AISI, The AI Security Institute

Future of Life Institute

The Ada Lovelace Institute

The Alan Turing Institute

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

HAI, Stanford Institute

AI Safety Info Page

Microsoft’s “AI For Good” Lab

Pages + Articles

What are some must-reads?

Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society

Free book and online course created by Dan Hendrycks, a prominent voice in the field.

aisafetybook.com

Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society

Free book and online course created by Dan Hendrycks, a prominent voice in the field.

aisafetybook.com

The Seoul Summit International Report

130-page report with large expert advisory panel chaired by Yoshua Bengio.

gov.uk

The Seoul Summit International Report

130-page report with large expert advisory panel chaired by Yoshua Bengio.

gov.uk

An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

Readable entry-level introduction to AI risks from the Centre for AI Safety.

safe.ai

An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

Readable entry-level introduction to AI risks from the Centre for AI Safety.

safe.ai

The Adolescence of Technology

An essay from the CEO of Anthropic (Dario Amodei) on the risks of AI published on his personal website.

darioamodei.com

The Adolescence of Technology

An essay from the CEO of Anthropic (Dario Amodei) on the risks of AI published on his personal website.

darioamodei.com

AI: Understanding It

The University of Exeter’s free interactive course on AI with a workbook and video inserts.

exeter.ac.uk

AI: Understanding It

The University of Exeter’s free interactive course on AI with a workbook and video inserts.

exeter.ac.uk

AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI Explained

Useful primer and popular video from IBM’s Technology YouTube Channel.

youtube.com

AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI Explained

Useful primer and popular video from IBM’s Technology YouTube Channel.

youtube.com

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

Seminal and important open letter with 33,705 signatures. Notable for the fact that in the subsequent years little has changed and the situation has worsened.

futureoflife.org

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

Seminal and important open letter with 33,705 signatures. Notable for the fact that in the subsequent years little has changed and the situation has worsened.

futureoflife.org

It’s Time to Log Off

Digital detox website. Helpful research and statistics page explaining the ways in which humans are spending more time online.

itstimetologoff.com

It’s Time to Log Off

Digital detox website. Helpful research and statistics page explaining the ways in which humans are spending more time online.

itstimetologoff.com

OpenAI Co-Founder, Who Helped Oust Sam Altman, Starts His Own Company

Article in New York Times discussing Ilya Sutskever’s relationship with Sam Altman and his new company Safe Superintelligence Inc.

nytimes.com

OpenAI Co-Founder, Who Helped Oust Sam Altman, Starts His Own Company

Article in New York Times discussing Ilya Sutskever’s relationship with Sam Altman and his new company Safe Superintelligence Inc.

nytimes.com

An Open Letter to OpenAI

Published last year, this letter aimed to challenge Open AI’s lack of transparency and asked them seven critical questions.

openai-transparency.org

An Open Letter to OpenAI

Published last year, this letter aimed to challenge Open AI’s lack of transparency and asked them seven critical questions.

openai-transparency.org

AI vs Cancer

Essay addressing the oft-asked question of when AI will deliver on the promises of its creators that it will solve cancer.

curecancer.ai

AI vs Cancer

Essay addressing the oft-asked question of when AI will deliver on the promises of its creators that it will solve cancer.

curecancer.ai

Geoffrey Hinton:

"These things are not just going to get comparable with us, they’re going to way outsmart us."

Geoffrey Hinton:

"These things are not just going to get comparable with us, they’re going to way outsmart us."

Geoffrey Hinton:

"These things are not just going to get comparable with us, they’re going to way outsmart us."

Geoffrey Hinton:

"These things are not just going to get comparable with us, they’re going to way outsmart us."

AI News

What’s happening in AI right now?

Keep up to date with the latest news via some of the most respected sources on the internet. These links below will take you to dedicated AI resources within each respective website.

AI News Website

Reuters, AI News

WIRED, Artificial Intelligence

The Economist, Artificial Intelligence

Transformer News

Governance.ai, Updates Section

Siliconversations, YouTube

InsideAI, YouTube

Species, YouTube

Podcasts

What’s worth listening to?

The Turning Podcast

The Alan Turing Institute’s dedicated podcast, with audio versions of long-reads as well as their own podcast show

Hard Fork Podcast

Engaging AI news show presented by two jovial journalists at the New York Times

The Future of Life Podcast

A very large archive of material and a great resource

The Lex Friedman Podcast

Episode 371: “The case for halting AI” featuring Max Tegmark

The Sam Harris Podcast

An interview titled “AI Utopia” featuring Nick Bostrom of Oxford University, respected thinker on Philosophy and AI

The Art of AI Podcast

An interview with the founder of Pause AI - Joep Meindertsma - which discusses themes of politics, protest and safety

The Dwarkesh Podcast

A guest appearance by Ilya Sutskever, ex-Open AI Chief Scientist and celebrity name within the world of AI

Positive AI

Can AI be a force for good?

Mo Gawdat: “We’ve created a new form of intelligence that thinks like us, learns like us, but is going to be smarter than us and better than us at everything that we do.”

See incredible examples here of the way AI is already revolutionising scientific fields, in medical care for the elderly, protection of the world’s rainforests and pre-natal scanning in hospitals in Uganda.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024

Demis Hassabis and John Jumper (Google DeepMind) developed AlphaFold, which predicts how protein structures will fold, with huge implications in drug discovery.

AI Transforms Pregnancy Scans in Africa

AI trained on millions of images means scans in Uganda can be analysed without specialists.

The World Bee Project

Saving the bees through massive data collection and sophisticated AI techniques.

Project Guacamaya by Microsoft

Cutting edge efforts to preserve the Amazon rainforest’s biodiversity using satellite imagery. Microsoft has also developed an AI programme called “SPARROW” which listens to the rainforest to hear if it is in “distress”.

Job Satisfaction Increase

A respected study which explores a future where menial tasks will be automated and allow humans to do higher level, more fulfilling tasks with greater job satisfaction. This flies in the face of traditional fears about mass-unemployment from AI.

StorySign

Huawei combined AI and augmented reality technology to create “StorySign” a smartphone app which helps deaf children learn to read by turning text into sign language.

Vulnerable People Living More Independently

In 2020 scientists from Northumbria University used AI to bring together a “living lab” of multi-disciplinary tools to help the elderly, people with autism and those with learning difficulties have a better quality of life.