Disruptive Technologies

sunrise over clouds

Geoengineering is no climate fix. But calling it a moral hazard could be counterproductive

By Soheil Shayegh | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Putin, a radio, and the Twitter logo against a nuclear-symbol background.

Fake news of a Chinese nuclear explosion got Russian attention

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

A Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drone.

Turkey’s military drones: an export product that’s disrupting NATO

By Dan Gettinger | Disruptive Technologies

The building housing smallpox-causing virus at the VECTOR research center.

What happened after an explosion at a Russian disease research lab called VECTOR?

By Filippa Lentzos | Analysis, Biosecurity

A naval exercise in the South China Sea.

A nuclear detonation in the South China Sea? No, more Twitter conspiracy nonsense

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

Computer code on world map.

Online disinformation and emerging tech: Are democracies at risk?

By Brad Allenby | Disruptive Technologies

Soldier donning a gas mask.

The Biological Weapons Convention protocol should be revisited

By Lynn C. Klotz | Biosecurity, Opinion

Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Information overload: The promise and risk of quantum computing

By Lindsay Rand, Berit Goodge | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

A heard of cows walks in the country.

How human and animal excrement harm the planet’s ecosystem

By Laura H. Kahn | Analysis, Biosecurity

Demonstrators call on countries to ban killer robots

The United States should drop its opposition to a killer robot treaty

By Lisa A. Bergstrom | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.

The fight over social media’s potent political ads just got more interesting

By Justin Sherman | Disruptive Technologies

A colorized scanning electron micrograph of a white blood cell eating an antibiotic resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly known as MRSA. Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

The existential threat of antimicrobial resistance

By Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity, Doomsday Clock, Technology and Security