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The Vital Edge explores the nature of work and the human experience in an era of machine intelligence. It is the primary website of Gideon Rosenblatt.
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Read More »The Singularity Won’t Just Happen to Larry Page
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe future of knowledge will be a synthesis of human and machine collaboration, coordinated through organizations, much as today. Any Singularity we may one day experience will, therefore, be shared: the collective destiny of intelligence.
Read More »Mission-Driven Artificial Intelligence and the Common Good
Reading Time: 6 minutesMission-driven AI is just starting to take off. It represents our best bet for addressing our most challenging ecological and societal problems.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAs machines become increasingly intelligent, machine governance must expand to something closer to the way we think about the governance of human systems.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesMachine intelligence will teach us to expand our understanding of intelligence.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesMy detailed summary of Yuval Noah Harari's latest book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the future, we will bring our own Virtual Personal Assistants to work and they will choose what services we use.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat is the right way to tax a robot? A robot tax isn't the same as a tax on human labor. Here's why it's more complicated than that.
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