A short note on malicious AI

In February 2018, a number of seven authoritative institutions (such as the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Electronic Frontier Foundation among others) released a report (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.07228.pdf) on Malicious AI that was …

Value Alignment in Artificial Intelligence

This week, Dutch television broadcasted an episode in the “Tegenlicht” series (worth checking out at https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht.html) which dealt with the challenge of value alignment in artificial intelligence. With my background in …

The AI-off switch

Could an AI misbehave in such a way that we have to switch it off, only to find out that we cannot? If the answer to this theoretical exercise is …