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China surveillance

The future of technology: Lessons from China—and the US

By Maya Wang, Frederike Kaltheuner, Amanda Klasing | Disruptive Technologies

plane crash investigators

How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies

By Kris Shrishak | Artificial Intelligence

The military applications of AI

To avoid an AI “arms race,” the world needs to expand scientific collaboration

By Charles Oppenheimer | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons

There’s a ‘ChatGPT’ for biology. What could go wrong?

By Sean Ekins, Filippa Lentzos, Max Brackmann, Cédric Invernizzi | Biosecurity

How emerging technology is shaping the future of intelligence.

Disruptive technologies in 2022

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

Interview: ChatGPT has a holiday message for you all

By Sara Goudarzi, Thomas Gaulkin | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock

AI isn’t choosing our artistic future, we are

By Katie Peyton Hofstadter | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI is plundering the imagination and replacing it with a slot machine

By Annie Dorsen | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Is AI art’s true foe?

By Martin O’Leary | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Spotting Frankensteins: Why humans beat AI at detecting freakish fakes

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Engineers Meeting in Robotic Research Laboratory. By Gorodenkoff. Standard license. stock.adobe.com

Do scientists need an AI Hippocratic oath? Maybe. Maybe not.

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

Cow. Credit: Roboiitgrs. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Who hacked the slaughterhouse? When robots and AI take over farms

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security