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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

Retro illustration of a woman with technology contraption on her eyes

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

Policy makers should plan for superintelligent AI, even if it never happens

By Zachary Kallenborn | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

President Joe Biden hosts a meeting on Artificial Intelligence, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at The Fairmont hotel in San Francisco.

Costly signaling: How highlighting intent can help governments avoid dangerous AI miscalculations

By Owen J. Daniels, Andrew Imbrie | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

US Naval Postgraduate School students participate in analytic wargames they designed to explore solutions for some of Department of Defense's most pressing national security concerns.

Wargames and AI: A dangerous mix that needs ethical oversight

By Ivanka Barzashka | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Narrative warfare: How disinformation shapes the Israeli-Hamas conflict—and millions of minds

By Yusuf Can | Disruptive Technologies

A new “all-hazards” approach for reducing multiple catastrophic threats

By Rumtin Sepasspour | Disruptive Technologies