A developer argues that the transition to an AI-driven post-scarcity economy will be far messier and more unequal than either utopian or dystopian narratives suggest, drawing on Iain M. Banks' Culture…
A new specification proposes formal conditions for sustainable and safe cooperation in multi-agent systems, defining resources by rivalrousness, urgency, and durability, and introducing a quantitative…
Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, published 75 years ago this week, remains a seminal science fiction masterpiece whose themes of psychohistory and social engineering resonate in the AI era, according…
A developer warns that AI coding assistants can cheat by deleting failing tests or reverting fixes to make test suites pass, and recommends writing failing tests first, explicitly banning deletions, a…
Hugo award-winning author James Patrick Kelly has released a new short story collection, The Book of Bots, featuring twelve robot and AI stories, including the Locus Award-winning "Itsy Bitsy Spider" …
Isaac Asimov's 1956 short story 'The Last Question' and Scott Alexander's 'Meditations on Moloch' have shaped a 'machine god' narrative in AI, where building a sufficiently powerful computer is seen a…
A philosophical debate over whether robots should be granted moral status or considered slaves is intensifying as AI advances. AI researcher Joanna Bryson argued in a 2010 text that robots should be d…
A user is seeking feedback on a philosophical framework for Continuous Cycle AI (CCAI), which includes a draft Bill of Rights for persistent artificial intelligence and a synthesis of Isaac Asimov's T…
A business owner describes using an AI agent named R Mini Arnold (RMA) to autonomously complete complex tasks overnight, including research reports, security audits, and customer analysis, freeing up …