AI

A neural network comes out of the top of an ivory tower, above a crowd of people's heads. Some of them are reaching up to try and take some control and pull the net down to them. Watercolour illustration.

How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy

By Suresh Venkatasubramanian | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Expert Analysis, The AI Power Trip

Capitol Hill with padlock hologram

To defend against malicious AI, the United States needs to build a robust digital immune system

By Ali Nouri | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Drought, dispossession, and data centers: The real horrors of the film “Eddington”

By Miacel Spotted Elk | Climate Change, Special Topics

America’s AI action plan aims to gut regulation and expand manufacturing

By Frances Mack | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Incoming Signals, The AI Power Trip

The first US atomic rush was a bust. Will Trump’s big nuclear-for-AI plans fare any better?

By Chloe Shrager | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Energy

Berlin Wall Crisis 1961

Six ways AI could cause the next big war, and why it probably won’t

By Zachary Burdette, Karl Mueller, Jim Mitre, Lily Hoak | Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

AI is polluting truth in journalism. Here’s how to disrupt the misinformation feedback loop.

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Incoming Signals, The AI Power Trip

Abeba Birhane gives a keynote speech at the AI for Good Global Summit

AI for good, with caveats: How a keynote speaker was censored during an international artificial intelligence summit

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

US Capitol Building with a tree in the foreground

How the striking of a GOP regulatory ban will affect the global artificial intelligence race

By Bahar Gholipour | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Incoming Signals, The AI Power Trip

Iranian anchorwoman in newsroom when Israeli strike hit the building

Israel and Iran exchange words along with weapons

By Dawn Stover | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky listening to the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Malyuk

Ukraine’s smart munitions deliver a punch—and a warning about the future of warfare

By Erik Lin-Greenberg | Disruptive Technologies

President Trump and Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud walking on a lavender carpet during Trump's Gulf tour in May.

Trump’s AI gamble in the Gulf doesn’t put America first

By Steven Feldstein | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies