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How Might AI Unlock a Better Future?

Thoughtful and provocative ideas on how humans might wield AI for a brighter tomorrow.

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Welcome to Mozilla’s AI-focused collections, regularly updated reading lists on how artificial intelligence can inspire, inform, protect, and guide us.

Here, you can find essays and ideas from some of today’s brightest and most inquisitive minds as they consider the power and possibility of a more optimistic future through artificial intelligence.

A Conversation With OpenAI’s First Artist in Residence

Alex Reben makes art with (and about) AI. I talked to him about what the new wave of generative models means for the future of human creativity.

Artificial Intelligence Can Provide Accurate Forecasts of Extreme Floods at Global Scale

Anthropogenic climate change is accelerating the hydrological cycle, causing an increase in the risk of flood-related disasters. A system that uses artificial intelligence allows the creation of reliable, global river flood forecasts, even in places where accurate local data are not available.

A 17-Year-Old Took Home $250,000 for His Award-Winning Discovery in Computer ‘Brains’ That Could Make AI Smarter and Safer

Regeneron Science Talent Search’s first-prize winner Achyuta Rajaram wants to improve machine learning to make it more efficient and safer.

How AI Is Being Used to Accelerate Clinical Trials

From study design to patient recruitment, researchers are investigating ways that technology could speed up the process.

The Robots Are Coming. and That’s a Good Thing.

MIT’s Daniela Rus isn’t worried that robots will take over the world. Instead, she envisions robots and humans teaming up to achieve things that neither could do alone.

Let AI Remake the Whole U.S. Government (Oh, and Save the Country)

Thanks to AI, Operation Warp Speed was a rare triumph for our federal bureaucracy. Now, it can help us blaze a new path to the shining city on a hill.

AI Could Help Translate Alien Languages

How communicating with whales could unsettle our basic notions of intelligence

How to Picture A.I.

To understand its strengths and limitations, we may need to adopt a new perspective.

AI Might Kill the ‘Starchitect’—but Make Real Estate More Sustainable

New forms of AI can help us solve one of the biggest challenges the real estate sector faces—climate change.

Laurie Anderson on Making an AI Chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m Totally, 100%, Sadly Addicted’

Anderson’s experiments with language-based AI predated ChatGPT – with one machine modelled on her dead husband that her friends ‘just can’t stand.’

Critique of Artificial Reason

Large language models like ChatGPT no longer represent a categorical threat to the supremacy of homo sapiens’ sapience. They’re simply smart tools.

The Algorithm for Equality

Embracing inclusive AI is our only chance to reshape the technological landscape.

Politics—Not Tech—Can Save Black Jobs From AI

Don’t plan to make individuals retrain for new jobs. Instead, build a society that upholds the lives of everyone.

Finally, an AI I’m Excited for My Kids to Use

Khan Academy has come up with a safe and accurate ChatGPT tutor. It’s also the best model we have for how to develop and implement AI for the public good.

Can AI Help Us Predict Extreme Weather?

AI models are revolutionizing weather forecasts.

Ukraine Conflict: How Can Open-Source Intelligence Help Prove War Crimes?

A non-profit is using open-source intelligence (OSINT) to document starvation war crimes in Ukraine.

How AI Can Make History

It turns out that large language models make surprisingly good research assistants for historians. Can the future of AI help reconstruct the past?

Generative Agents Will Change Our Society in Weird, Wonderful and Worrying Ways. Can Philosophy Help Us Get a Grip on Them?

Generative agents will change our society in weird, wonderful and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us get a grip on them?

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