Could the COVID-19 pandemic have started with a lab accident? While the matter has become heavily politicized, a credible investigation could help clear things up.

So the administration says it has its sights on Huawei because its equipment poses a national security threat. Joy Dantong Ma, a China expert at the Paulson Institute, a think tank focused on the US-China relationship, told the Bulletin there may be other reasons for the moves against Huawei.

As seen from Pakistan, U.S. nuclear weapons policies present troubling trends; an exclusive interview with the irreverent Brig. Gen. Atta M. Iqhman.

Today, in a one-sentence statement, industry professionals issued yet another warning regarding the dangers posed by artificial intelligence.

Through an executive order, President Donald Trump launched the American AI Initiative, further underscoring the importance of a group of technologies that are reshaping everything from medical diagnoses to war-fighting. The administration didn’t give many specifics in the order published Monday evening or details about funding for its various elements such as efforts to increase … Continued

After cases of Ebola begin showing up in the United States in 2014, the US government created a tiered system of hospitals to deal with the virus and other serious infectious diseases. Despite the fact that outbreaks of lethal diseases--like the coronavirus that's spreading in Wuhan, China--are common, the US government has stopped funding dozens of specialized hospitals across the country meant to deal with them.

The steady undermining of arms control agreements provides an opportunity to rethink how governments and citizens promote transparency and military cooperation using 21st century technologies.

If the United States attempted a preemptive strike against North Korea’s nuclear capabilities, Pyongyang might turn Seoul into a “sea of sarin.” Are chemical weapons North Korea’s greatest deterrent?

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One Uighur student studying in the United States returned home to Xinjiang, a region of China that's home to millions of largely Muslim Uighurs. He was quickly arrested, detained for close to a month, and subjected to biometric scans--all part of China's increasingly pervasive surveillance and oppression of the Uighurs.

We live in an Information Age. Never before have we had so much data at our fingertips, thanks to digitization and the Internet. But information is only useful if it is accessible, searchable, and intelligible.

The creators of ChatGPT decided to test whether their AI systems can teach someone to build and use nuclear and biological weapons. Was it enough?

US enterprises can benefit from collaborating with China on AI. But they also risk being exploited by the Chinese Communist Party.

Today's innovators can learn about being mindful scientific stewards by looking at yesterday's innovators such as Robert Oppenheimer.

Thinkers on existential risk have given grim odds for whether humanity and civilization will survive very much longer. People have so many more efficient means of ending the human enterprise than in earlier times. While many projections of doom haven't panned out, they have served a useful purpose--and maybe save humankind in the process.

The new project’s goals are to increase a commander’s “situational awareness and reduce the ambiguity of actors and objectives in gray-zone environments”—where a “gray zone” is characterized as “limited conflict, sitting between ‘normal’ competition between states and what is traditionally thought of as war.”