Media Mentions
Unknowable Minds at Elaine’s Literary Salon (beinkandescent.com)
1 April 2025
Today at Elaine’s Literary Salon, meet Dr. Mark Bailey, who writes about the intersection between artificial intelligence, complexity, and national security.
The best books on the ethics of the unknown: AI, philosophy, and the future (Shepherd.com)
23 Dec 2024
Booklist curated by Mark Bailey.
Trailblazers 2023 (Homeland Security Today)
12 Sept 2023
"The hottest advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning comes with risks and potential unintended consequences, including the control of critical systems and weaponry. Dr. Mark Bailey, who writes about the intersection between artificial intelligence, complexity, and national security, is helping ensure that decision makers understand the unpredictability of evolving technologies before the risks outweigh the benefits to a potentially disastrous degree.”
Experts from Academia and Intelligence Community Discuss Artificial Intelligence Safety at NIU Symposium (ODNI Dispatch)
22 June 2023
“It’s a really important topic and I think we are at this precipice where the decisions we make now as this technology continues to develop could have significant consequences down the road,” said Mark Bailey, Department Chair of Cyber Intelligence and Data Science at National Intelligence University (NIU).
In response, Bailey, who studies AI safety, organized the school’s first AI Safety Symposium on June 21 and 22 in Washington, D.C. The event, hosted by NIU’s Ann Caracristi Institute and Data Science Intelligence Center, brought together 65 experts from across academia and the Intelligence Community (IC) to tackle weighty issues related to AI safety and see how they can be applied in the IC.
“Being at NIU, we’re at this nexus between the Intelligence Community and the outside academic community because we wear both hats,” said Bailey. “So, what I really wanted to do was sort of bring all these different parties together.”
Paper Claims AI May Be a Civilization-Destroying "Great Filter" (Futurism)
By NOOR AL-SIBAI
11 May 2023
"If aliens are out there, why haven't they contacted us yet? It may be, a new paper argues, that they — or, in the future, we — inevitably get wiped out by ultra-strong artificial intelligence, victims of our own drive to create a superior being.
This potential answer to the Fermi paradox — in which physicist Enrico Fermi and subsequent generations pose the question: "where is everybody?" — comes from National Intelligence University researcher Mark M. Bailey, who in a new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper posits that advanced AI may be exactly the kind of catastrophic risk that could wipe out entire civilizations."