Controlling AI; Africa Online; and more [Daily Newsletter]

February 11, 2015 Daily Newsletter

REVIEW Are We Smart Enough to Control Artificial Intelligence? A true AI might ruin the world—but that assumes it’s possible at all.     NEWS In Ghana, Microsoft Shows Unused Wireless Frequencies Can Cut Internet Costs A college is the first place in Africa to benefit from a wireless technology that takes advantage of unused radio frequencies – an approach Microsoft is pushing across the continent.

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NEWS NAS Study Recommends Testing Geoengineering on a Small Scale A report from the National Academy of Sciences says inaction on greenhouse-gas emissions makes resorting to geoengineering more likely.     NEWS Experiments Get Underway on Novel Nuclear Reactor Transatomic Power has begun tests on a very cheap and compact molten-salt reactor.     VIEW Why Encryption Wouldn’t Have Stopped Anthem from Spilling 80 Million Social Security Numbers To prevent breaches companies must strictly control which employees can access sensitive data.       VIEW Data Mining Reveals a Global Link Between Corruption and Wealth Social scientists have never understood why some countries are more corrupt than others. But the first study that links corruption with wealth could help change that.     SEE MORE STORIES »

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