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Even if they don’t, they might be treated as such—to humanity’s great cost
We don’t care for others because they’re conscious. We believe they’re conscious because we care about them, argues Blaise Agüera…
But a new superintelligence may be coming, and it would upend humanity’s hierarchy of moral concern, thinks Susan Schneider
Nvidia faces competition from startups developing specialised chips for AI inference as demand shifts from training large…
It may have profound implications for society and what it means to be human
The Google Deepmind co-founder sets out his vision in an exclusive interview
