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AI

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How AI surveillance threatens democracy everywhere

By Abi Olvera | Disruptive Technologies

Why a misleading “red team” study of the gene synthesis industry wrongly casts doubt on industry safety

By International Gene Synthesis Consortium (IGSC) | Biosecurity

Green HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Drink the Kool-Aid all you want, but don’t call AI an existential threat

By Jeff Caruso | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

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How to better research the possible threats posed by AI-driven misuse of biology

By Matthew E. Walsh | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

OpenAI’s new text-to-video app is impressive, at first sight. But those physics glitches…

By Gary Marcus | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

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Today’s AI threat: More like nuclear winter than nuclear war

By Daniel Zimmer, Johanna Rodehau-Noack | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

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Where Biden’s AI policies fall short in protecting workers

By Hanlin Li, Nick Vincent | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

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What the G7 countries should do at their next summit to regulate AI

By Elena Simperl, Johanna Walker | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”

By Dan Drollette Jr | Special Topics

A male Ukrainian military soldier with a quadcopter control panel with a joystick and a screen.

AI in war: Can advanced military technologies be tamed before it’s too late?

By Steven Feldstein | Disruptive Technologies

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The disruptive technologies year in review

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

The best multimedia stories of 2023

By Thomas Gaulkin, Erik English | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading