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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly being integrated into critical systems across various domains, from healthcare to autonomous vehicles. While its integration brings immense benefits, it also introduces significant risks, including…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhiqiang Lin , Huan Sun , Ness Shroff

The terms 'human-level artificial intelligence' and 'artificial general intelligence' are widely used to refer to the possibility of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) with potentially extreme impacts on society. These terms are poorly…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ross Gruetzemacher , Jess Whittlestone

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) tools increasingly permeate every possible social, political, and economic sphere; sorting, taxonomizing and predicting complex human behaviour and social phenomena. However, from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Abeba Birhane

As progress in AI continues to advance, it is important to know how advanced systems will make choices and in what ways they may fail. Machines can already outsmart humans in some domains, and understanding how to safely build ones which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Stephen Casper

As a result of rapidly accelerating AI capabilities, over the past year, national governments and multinational bodies have announced efforts to address safety, security and ethics issues related to AI models. One high priority among these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jaspreet Pannu , Doni Bloomfield , Alex Zhu , Robert MacKnight , Gabe Gomes , Anita Cicero , Thomas V. Inglesby

The rise of artificial intelligence (A.I.) based systems is already offering substantial benefits to the society as a whole. However, these systems may also enclose potential conflicts and unintended consequences. Notably, people will tend…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Pedro Fernandes , Francisco C. Santos , Manuel Lopes

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has apparently become one of the most important techniques discovered by humans in history while the human brain is widely recognized as one of the most complex systems in the universe. One fundamental critical…

This paper develops a taxonomy of expert perspectives on the risks and likely consequences of artificial intelligence, with particular focus on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Drawing from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alex Amadori , Eva Behrens , Gabriel Alfour , Andrea Miotti

Artificial intelligence offers much promise, but its use in scientific research should be restrained so that the primary aim of academia -- advancing knowledge for humans -- is safeguarded.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Roberto Trotta

We want artificial intelligence (AI) to be beneficial. This is the grounding assumption of most of the attitudes towards AI research. We want AI to be "good" for humanity. We want it to help, not hinder, humans. Yet what exactly this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Heather M. Roff

The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) applications has accelerated rapidly. AI enabled technologies are facing the public in many ways including infrastructure, consumer products and home applications. Because many of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Joanna F. DeFranco , Luke Biersmith

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made impressive progress in recent years and represents a key technology that has a crucial impact on the economy and society. However, it is clear that AI and business models based on it can only reach…

What does Artificial Intelligence (AI) have to contribute to health care? And what should we be looking out for if we are worried about its risks? In this paper we offer a survey, and initial evaluation, of hopes and fears about the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Robert Sparrow , Joshua Hatherley

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

General intelligence, the ability to solve arbitrary solvable problems, is supposed by many to be artificially constructible. Narrow intelligence, the ability to solve a given particularly difficult problem, has seen impressive recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Michael K Cohen , Badri Vellambi , Marcus Hutter

Increasingly, there is well-grounded concern that through perpetual scaling-up of computation power and data, current deep learning techniques will create highly capable artificial intelligence that could pursue goals in a manner that is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Cecil Abungu , Michelle Malonza , Sumaya Nur Adan

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 use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in public administration is expanding rapidly, moving from automating routine tasks to deploying generative and agentic systems that autonomously act on goals. While AI promises greater efficiency and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Alexander Wuttke , Adrian Rauchfleisch , Andreas Jungherr

The expanding application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in scientific fields presents unprecedented opportunities for discovery and innovation. However, this growth is not without risks. AI models in science, if misused, can amplify risks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jiyan He , Weitao Feng , Yaosen Min , Jingwei Yi , Kunsheng Tang , Shuai Li , Jie Zhang , Kejiang Chen , Wenbo Zhou , Xing Xie , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Shuxin Zheng

Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides many opportunities to improve private and public life. Discovering patterns and structures in large troves of data in an automated manner is a core component of data science, and currently drives…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Vaishak Belle