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How wealthy countries evade responsibility for their fossil fuel exports

By Bill McKibben | Climate Change, Opinion

AI and the future of warfare: The troubling evidence from the US military

By Paul Lushenko | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

Narrative warfare: How disinformation shapes the Israeli-Hamas conflict—and millions of minds

By Yusuf Can | Disruptive Technologies
A vaccine protest in 2021.

COVID vaccines went ‘on trial.’ Are routine childhood vaccine mandates at risk?

By James G. Hodge, Jr., Jennifer L. Piatt, Erica N. White, Leila F. Barraza | Biosecurity
Swarm behavior

A new “all-hazards” approach for reducing multiple catastrophic threats

By Rumtin Sepasspour | Disruptive Technologies
An agricultural drone.

Why cheap drones pose a significant chemical terrorism threat

By Zachary Kallenborn | Biosecurity

Why North Korea may use nuclear weapons first, and why current US policy toward Pyongyang is unsustainable

By Robert E. Kelly | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 03: OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 03, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

A tale of two camps: Sam Altman’s departure from (and return to) OpenAI

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies
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Bridging the gap between nuclear ban treaty supporters and opponents

By Hideo Asano | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Uncategorized, Voices of Tomorrow

Protein de-extinction: How Neanderthals and mammoths could help find new antibiotics

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

The people of Gaza need a water ceasefire

By Reem Abu Shomar, Mark Zeitoun | Climate Change, Special Topics

Narrative warfare: How disinformation shapes the Israeli-Hamas conflict—and millions of minds

By Yusuf Can | Disruptive Technologies

Swarm behavior

A new “all-hazards” approach for reducing multiple catastrophic threats

By Rumtin Sepasspour | Disruptive Technologies

Why North Korea may use nuclear weapons first, and why current US policy toward Pyongyang is unsustainable

By Robert E. Kelly | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

AI and the future of warfare: The troubling evidence from the US military

By Paul Lushenko | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

trump liquified natural gas export terminal

How wealthy countries evade responsibility for their fossil fuel exports

By Bill McKibben | Climate Change, Opinion

A vaccine protest in 2021.

COVID vaccines went ‘on trial.’ Are routine childhood vaccine mandates at risk?

By James G. Hodge, Jr., Jennifer L. Piatt, Erica N. White, Leila F. Barraza | Biosecurity

An agricultural drone.

Why cheap drones pose a significant chemical terrorism threat

By Zachary Kallenborn | Biosecurity

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