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

Apocalypse, a 1903 painting by Albert Goodwin

Stories of technological threat—and hope

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Weapons

A large wave at Banzai Pipeline of the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii

The apocalypse: It’s not the end of the world

By Jamais Cascio | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Risk

Depiction of a carbon nanotube

The threats from nanotechnology

By Margaret E. Kosal | Disruptive Technologies

The latest from AI research: automated fake news trolls

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia

The Sycamore processor

Quantum supremacy: not a Jason Bourne movie

By | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

A brief field guide to the internet’s tools for repression

By Callum Tennent | Disruptive Technologies