Superintelligence is propounding a solution that will not work to a problem that probably does not exist, but now is the time to take the ethical and policy implications of artificial intelligence seriously

"There’s no fundamental physics reason that someday we’re not going to have a non-invasive brain-machine interface. It’s just a matter of time. And we have to manage that eventuality.” — neuroscience expert Jack Gallant

A powerful new computer simulation is helping government agencies predict what every single survivor would do after a nuclear explosion in Washington, D.C.

Supporting the workers whose efforts underlie these systems will be crucial for building a sustainable and strong AI economy.

If you never dreamed that toy-like drones from off the shelf at the big-box store could be converted—with a bit of artificial intelligence and a touch of shaped explosive—into face-recognizing assassins with a mission to terminate you—well, dream it.

Black voters are frequent targets of online disinformation. They were in 2016 when Russia's Internet Research Agency created fake Black activist profiles in its effort to interfere in that year's presidential election and they were in 2020, when scammers tried to dissuade people form getting absentee ballots. Howard University's Keesha Middlemass, a political science professor, and her colleagues have set out to explore how Black communities in Washington, DC, are impacted by disinformation.

A crash Defense Department program designed to deliver AI technologies to a combat theater within six months is a smashing success so far. But is the Pentagon ready for the enormous challenges that lie at the intersection of military power and artificial intelligence?

Russia may try to buy massive amounts of Chinese weapons by transferring weapons-grade plutonium—a deal that would have severe, long-term strategic consequences.

The separation of plutonium by civilian reprocessing has far exceeded plutonium use in breeder and light-water reactor fuel with the result being a global stockpile of over 300 tons of civilian but weapon-usable plutonium. By the International Atomic Energy Agency’s metric, this is enough for almost 40,000 Nagasaki bombs.

Physicist Frank Oppenheimer’s pioneering science museum, the Exploratorium, encourages visitors to think differently about the natural world. 

A personal essay on the meaning of a ballistic missile alert issued in Hawaii in January 2018, at the height of nuclear tensions between the United States and North Korea.

State Senator Robert Hertzberg is zeroing in on data privacy, blockchain, and automated social media accounts.

Much of the debate over how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect geopolitics focuses on the emerging arms race between Washington and Beijing, as well as investments by major military powers like Russia. And to be sure, breakthroughs are happening at a rapid pace in the United States and China. But while an arms race between … Continued

Climate change is making explosive wildfires more likely, with serious implications for the country’s nuclear weapons programs.

Will quantum technologies revolutionize the military landscape? China seems intent on finding out.

Instead of a nuclear war analogy, a more productive way to approach AI is as a disruption that more closely resembles a nuclear winter.

The chief executive of the oil company that owns the billion-dollar project said it would allow them to operate another "60, 70, 80 years."

There has been a lot of prominent discussion lately (in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, among other places) about the size of China's nuclear arsenal, based on a study by Georgetown University professor Phillip Karber, "Strategic Implications of China's Underground