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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)

A tale of two camps: Sam Altman’s departure from (and return to) OpenAI

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Protein de-extinction: How Neanderthals and mammoths could help find new antibiotics

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Illustration of robot holding ripped picture of a person's face

Spotting AI-generated content is too hard. Look for credible sources instead.

By Nate Sharadin | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Yoshua Bengio, founder and scientific director of Mila at the Quebec AI Institute, during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law hearing in July. The hearing was titled "Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation." Photo credit: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

Luddites marching into the future

Rage against the machine owners: Brian Merchant on Luddite lessons for 21st-century technology

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

Popping the chatbot hype balloon

By Sara Goudarzi | Special Topics

AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material

By Jingjie He, Nikita Degtyarev | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age

By John Mecklin | Artificial Intelligence, Military Applications of AI

Introduction: The Hype, Peril, and Promise of Artificial Intelligence

By John Mecklin | Artificial Intelligence, Military Applications of AI

Will AI make us crazy?

By Dawn Stover | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI back to back heads

Convergence: Artificial intelligence and the new and old weapons of mass destruction

By Emilia Javorsky, Hamza Chaudhry | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI Command of the military forces on the tablet computer

War is messy. AI can’t handle it.

By Ian Reynolds, Ozan Ahmet Cetin | Disruptive Technologies