A few days before Christmas, I sat down to lunch with a friend of many years who is religious.  He’s aware I’m an atheist, but that gives piquancy to our conversations.   As we were sitting amidst holiday decorations, he seemed unable to refrain from saying, “I don’t know h

In his new book, Super Intelligence, Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, issues a warning about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Huffington Post  One of the problems lies with language which can been dangerously ambiguous. Tell a robot its mission is to m