Science Alert  September 18, 2022 Considering recent advances in machine intelligence, several scientists, philosophers, and technologists have revived the discussion about the potentially catastrophic risks entailed by such an entity. An international team of researchers (Spain, Germany, USA – UC San Diego, Chile) traced the origins and development of the neo-fear of superintelligence, and some of the major proposals for its containment. They argue that total containment is, in principle, impossible, due to fundamental limits inherent to computing itself. Turing’s halting program centers on knowing whether a computer program will reach a conclusion and answer (so it halts), or simply […]