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Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing exponentially and is likely to have profound impacts on human wellbeing, social equity, and environmental sustainability. Here we argue that the "alignment problem" in AI research is also an…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-30 Daniel W. O'Neill , Stefano Vrizzi , Noemi Luna Carmeno , Felix Creutzig , Jefim Vogel

The leading AI companies are increasingly focused on building generalist AI agents -- systems that can autonomously plan, act, and pursue goals across almost all tasks that humans can perform. Despite how useful these systems might be,…

AI that can accelerate research could drive a century of technological progress over just a few years. During such a period, new technological or political developments will raise consequential and hard-to-reverse decisions, in rapid…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-19 William MacAskill , Fin Moorhouse

Rapid technological advancements in AI as well as the growing deployment of intelligent technologies in new application domains are currently driving the competition between businesses, nations and regions. This race for technological…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-17 The Anh Han , Luis Moniz Pereira , Francisco C. Santos , Tom Lenaerts

This paper provides an overview and critique of the risk based model of artificial intelligence (AI) governance that has become a popular approach to AI regulation across multiple jurisdictions. The 'AI Policy Landscape in Europe, North…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Veve Fry

The governance of frontier general-purpose artificial intelligence has become a public-sector problem of institutional design, not merely a technical issue of model performance. Recent evidence indicates that AI capabilities are advancing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Fabio Correa Xavier

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly employed to enhance assistive technologies, yet it can fail in various ways. We conducted a systematic literature review of research into AI-based assistive technology for persons with visual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Zahra Ahmadi , Peter R. Lewis , Mahadeo A. Sukhai

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses new and poorly understood threats to financial stability. We use a game-theoretic model to analyse the stability impact of AI, finding that it amplifies existing financial system…

General Economics · Economics 2025-07-08 Jon Danielsson , Andreas Uthemann

Potential malicious misuse of civilian artificial intelligence (AI) poses serious threats to security on a national and international level. Besides defining autonomous systems from a technological viewpoint and explaining how AI…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Lukas Pöhler , Valentin Schrader , Alexander Ladwein , Florian von Keller

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most discussed technologies today. There are many innovative applications such as the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, customer experience, new business, education, contagious diseases…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Richard Benjamins , Idoia Salazar

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in the core functions of social, political, and economic life, it catalyzes structural transformations with far-reaching societal implications. This paper advances the concept of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Kyle A Kilian

The most advanced future AI systems will first be deployed inside the frontier AI companies developing them. According to these companies and independent experts, AI systems may reach or even surpass human intelligence and capabilities by…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved over the past decade and has advanced in areas such as language comprehension, image and video recognition, programming, and scientific reasoning. Recent AI technologies based on large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jonghong Jeon

Rapid progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) has brought increasing attention to the potential impacts of AI technologies on society. In this paper we discuss one such potential impact: the problem of accidents in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Dario Amodei , Chris Olah , Jacob Steinhardt , Paul Christiano , John Schulman , Dan Mané

With the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies in our daily lives, fear and anxiety about their misuse as well as the hidden biases in their creation have led to a demand for regulation to address such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-09 The Anh Han , Tom Lenaerts , Francisco C. Santos , Luis Moniz Pereira

The accelerated development, deployment and adoption of artificial intelligence systems has been fuelled by the increasing involvement of big tech. This has been accompanied by increasing ethical concerns and intensified societal and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Alex Hernandez-Garcia , Alexandra Volokhova , Ezekiel Williams , Dounia Shaaban Kabakibo

Collaborative AI systems (CAISs) aim at working together with humans in a shared space to achieve a common goal. This critical setting yields hazardous circumstances that could harm human beings. Thus, building such systems with strong…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jubril Gbolahan Adigun , Matteo Camilli , Michael Felderer , Andrea Giusti , Dominik T Matt , Anna Perini , Barbara Russo , Angelo Susi

This paper presents an argument that certain AI safety measures, rather than mitigating existential risk, may instead exacerbate it. Under certain key assumptions - the inevitability of AI failure, the expected correlation between an AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Herman Cappelen , Josh Dever , John Hawthorne

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have great potential to help address societal challenges that are both collective in nature and present at national or trans-national scale. Pressing challenges in healthcare, finance, infrastructure…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been advancing at a fast pace and it is now poised for deployment in a wide range of applications, such as autonomous systems, medical diagnosis and natural language processing. Early adoption of AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Marta Kwiatkowska , Xiyue Zhang