Disruptive Technologies

Terrorists are using consumer drones—and it’s getting harder to stop them

By Erik English | Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia

US Naval Postgraduate School students participate in analytic wargames they designed to explore solutions for some of Department of Defense's most pressing national security concerns.

Wargames and AI: A dangerous mix that needs ethical oversight

By Ivanka Barzashka | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Henry Kissinger.

Henry Kissinger supported wars and coups. He also played a little-known role in eliminating bioweapons

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

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

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

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

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Hollywood, nuclear war, and the art of saving the world

By Emilia Javorsky | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

A test of antibacterial resistance.

Can’t quite develop that dangerous pathogen? AI may soon be able to help

By Allison Berke | Biosecurity