Nearly 15 years ago today, a television network was looking for Canada’s smartest person. I wrote: “The network can stop now; ...

Artificial intelligence has already crept into daily money decisions, from budgeting apps that flag overspending to ...

Above: Wang Sihan (right) tutors an elementary school girl with language developmental delays through a volunteer program at ...

If you’ve ever opened your property tax bill and wondered why it keeps going up, the answer isn’t wasteful local governments ...

Four new portraits have gone up at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, showcasing this year’s recipients of the Portrait of a Nation award for their transformative contributions to American ...

I didn’t set out to use NotebookLM as a personal finance coach. I had already been experimenting with it for research and ...

Welcome to the 21st edition of the Sidney Awards. Every year, I give out extremely nonlucrative prizes, in honor of ...

As China's homegrown AI technology accelerates toward large-scale real-world applications, the education sector has emerged ...

The Jewish world is in “suspended animation.” Diaspora Jews are trapped in a “Golden Cage”—a place where the politics are ...

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The paper addresses the AI shutdown problem, a long-standing challenge in AI safety. The shutdown problem asks how to design AI systems that will shut down when instructed, will not try to prevent ...