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Artificial Intelligence

Ballot with word AI written on it going into ballot box.

On November 5, AI is also on the ballot

By Ali Nouri | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

A new military-industrial complex: How tech bros are hyping AI’s role in war

By Paul Lushenko, Keith Carter | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Hand of robot repairing a bridge

Don’t panic: AI can strengthen democracy too

By Abi Olvera | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

US President Joe Biden (L) and California Governor Gavin Newsom at an event discussing the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California in June 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why California Gov. Gavin Newsom should sign an AI model regulation bill

By Anthony Aguirre | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

AI and the A-bomb: What the analogy captures and misses

By Kevin Klyman, Raphael Piliero | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Humans should teach AI how to avoid nuclear war—while they still can

By Cameron Vega, Eliana Johns | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons

Three key misconceptions in the debate about AI and existential risk

By Jack Kelly | Artificial Intelligence, Voices of Tomorrow

Green HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Drink the Kool-Aid all you want, but don’t call AI an existential threat

By Jeff Caruso | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

US Army soldiers walking in Syria

Listen up, UN: Soldiers aren’t fans of killer robots

By Catherine Sarkis | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

Responsible science: What Sam Altman can learn (and not learn) from Nobel and Oppenheimer

By Sarah Kreps | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

OpenAI’s new text-to-video app is impressive, at first sight. But those physics glitches…

By Gary Marcus | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Robots standing with a nuclear winter landscape in distance

Today’s AI threat: More like nuclear winter than nuclear war

By Daniel Zimmer, Johanna Rodehau-Noack | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies