The Download: a new AI risk database, and studying Jupiter’s mysterious moon
What’s new: Adopting AI can be fraught with danger. Systems could be biased, or parrot falsehoods, or even become addictive. And that’s before you consider the possibility AI could one day somehow spin out of our control. To manage these potential risks, we first need to understand them. A new database compiled by the FutureTech group at MIT’s CSAIL with a team of collaborators and published online today could help.
Why it matters: The AI Risk Repository documents over 700 potential risks advanced AI systems could pose, making it the most comprehensive source yet of information about issues that could arise from the creation and deployment of these models. However, even with this new database, it’s hard to know which we ought to worry about the most. Read the full story.
—Scott J Mulligan
MIT Technology Review Narrated: The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
We’ve known of Europa’s existence for more than four centuries, but for most of that time, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon was just a pinprick of light in our telescopes.
Over the last few decades, however, as astronomers have scrutinized it through telescopes and six spacecraft have flown nearby, a new picture has come into focus. Europa is nothing like our moon.
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