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If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment

An unsettling new book advocates a closer relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government to harness artificial intelligence in the name of national security

The Guardian - UK

Einstein letter warning FDR of threat of Nazi nuclear bomb set to fetch $4m

Two-page letter written by physicist and fellow scientist, for sale at Christie’s, urged US government to invest in nuclear research

The Guardian - US

Late Microsoft co-founder's treasure hoard of artefacts to be auctioned, includes a letter Einstein sent to Roosevelt that ultimately led to the Manhattan Project

As per Allen's wishes, all proceeds will go to philanthropy.

PC Gamer

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Question 7 by Richard Flanagan review – the Booker winner’s beautiful, unclassifiable memoir-cum-novel

In seeking to understand his parents and his life, Flanagan merges memory and fiction to ponder the random nature of existence, resulting in a masterpiece of subtlety and depth

The Guardian - UK

The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

The Conversation

84 Years Ago, Einstein Wrote an Urgent Letter that Altered History Forever

In August 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt notifying him of novel research that could lead to the production of an atomic bomb.

Inverse

‘A race it might be impossible to stop’: how worried should we be about AI?

Scientists are warning machine learning will soon outsmart humans – maybe it’s time for us to take note

The Guardian - UK

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