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Artificial Intelligence

Is AI art’s true foe?

By Martin O’Leary | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, how to face a new era of global catastrophic risks

By Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Spotting Frankensteins: Why humans beat AI at detecting freakish fakes

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Why policy makers should beware claims of new ‘arms races’

By Haydn Belfield, Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Exterior of Supreme Court building.

After Roe’s overturn: the abortion surveillance state

By Carrie N. Baker | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Engineers Meeting in Robotic Research Laboratory. By Gorodenkoff. Standard license. stock.adobe.com

Do scientists need an AI Hippocratic oath? Maybe. Maybe not.

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

Cow. Credit: Roboiitgrs. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Who hacked the slaughterhouse? When robots and AI take over farms

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

DeepMind’s David Silver speaks to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters. Photo provided by David Silver and used with permission.

DeepMind’s David Silver on games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A police officer with a camera.

It’s time to address facial recognition, the most troubling law enforcement AI tool

By Trenton W. Ford | Artificial Intelligence

Watch now—The Artificial Intelligence Era: What will the future look like?

By Halley Posner | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

A U-2 spy plane.

Regulating military AI will be difficult. Here’s a way forward

By Vincent Boulanin | Artificial Intelligence

MQ-9 Reaper.

In the debate over autonomous weapons, it’s time to unlock the “black box” of AI

By Arthur Holland Michel | Artificial Intelligence, Opinion