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Elon musk jumping on stage at a Trump rally

Trump’s potential impact on emerging and disruptive technologies

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

Ballot with word AI written on it going into ballot box.

On November 5, AI is also on the ballot

By Ali Nouri | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Hand of robot repairing a bridge

Don’t panic: AI can strengthen democracy too

By Abi Olvera | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI and the A-bomb: What the analogy captures and misses

By Kevin Klyman, Raphael Piliero | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas

By Thomas Gaulkin | Special Topics

Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security

By Dawn Stover | Special Topics

AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet

By Walter Scheirer | Special Topics

Humans should teach AI how to avoid nuclear war—while they still can

By Cameron Vega, Eliana Johns | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons

Three key misconceptions in the debate about AI and existential risk

By Jack Kelly | Artificial Intelligence, Voices of Tomorrow

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

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

By Gary Marcus | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Robots standing with a nuclear winter landscape in distance

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

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