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The walls have eyes: How Trump plans to supercharge border security with tech

By Petra Molnar | Disruptive Technologies

glacier with and without efforts to rein in climate change

The best of the Bulletin’s bimonthly magazine, 2024

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Another year, another 366 days of tech (with a healthy dose of AI)

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

AI goes nuclear

By Dawn Stover | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Representatives to the Biological Weapons Convention meet.

What will be the impact of AI on the bioweapons treaty?

By James Revill, Clarissa Rios, Louison Mazeaud | Biosecurity

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

Mark Cuban with circuitry and a digital planet in background

Mark Cuban on AI, Elon Musk, and Big Tech’s influence on society and elections

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

Hand of robot repairing a bridge

Don’t panic: AI can strengthen democracy too

By Abi Olvera | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 03: OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 03, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Apathy and hyperbole cloud the real risks of AI bioweapons

By Filippa Lentzos, Jez Littlewood, Hailey Wingo, Alberto Muti | Biosecurity

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

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

Parthenon undergoing renovations

Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year

By John Mecklin, Dan Drollette Jr | Special Topics

AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet

By Walter Scheirer | Special Topics