This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through October 1st)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Tech Titans Join Forces to Stop AI From Behaving Badly Will Knight MIT Technology Review "A new organization called the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society will seek to foster public dialogue and create guidelines for developing AI so that systems do not misbehave...'The positive impacts of AI will depend not only on the quality of our algorithms, but on the level of public engagement, of transparency, and ethical discussion that takes place around it.'" SPACE: SpaceX's Big Fucking Rocket – the Full Story Tim Urban Wait But Why "Yesterday, Elon Musk got on stage at the 2016 International Astronautical Congress and unveiled the first real details about the big fucking rocket they're making...Right now we're all on Earth, which means that if something terrible happens on Earth--caused by nature or by our own technology--we're done. That's like having a precious digital photo album saved only on one not-necessarily-reliable hard drive. If you were in that situation, you'd be smart to back the album up on a second hard drive. QUANTUM COMPUTING: Biggest Ever Quantum Chip Announced, but Scientists Aren't Buying It James Vincent The Verge '"There was only ever a hope that a quantum annealer would be better,' Matthias Troyer, who co-authored the 2014 Science paper, told The Verge.