March special issue: What to do about Taiwan

Disruptive Technologies

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After the fact: Another controversial virus study raises questions about US government oversight

By David Gillum, Kathleen M. Vogel | Biosecurity

Special: Will AI destroy art? Or just change it?

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI isn’t choosing our artistic future, we are

By Katie Peyton Hofstadter | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI is plundering the imagination and replacing it with a slot machine

By Annie Dorsen | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

The Chinese city of Urumqi in Xinjiang. Credit: Alexander Flühmann via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

China’s high-tech surveillance drives oppression of Uyghurs

By Steven Feldstein | Disruptive Technologies

Is AI art’s true foe?

By Martin O’Leary | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

A coup attempt in Moscow in 1991.

Are the US and China fighting a “tech war” over semiconductors and other advanced technology?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

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

Russia’s alleged bioweapons claims have few supporters

By Jez Littlewood, Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity

Spotting Frankensteins: Why humans beat AI at detecting freakish fakes

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Enhanced Ebola screening.

Why this Ebola outbreak in Uganda might be more worrisome than others

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Fear and Loathing in Moscow: The Russian biological weapons program in 2022

By Robert Petersen | Biosecurity