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artificial intelligence

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

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Where Biden’s AI policies fall short in protecting workers

By Hanlin Li, Nick Vincent | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

G7 Italia sign with flags of participating nations

What the G7 countries should do at their next summit to regulate AI

By Elena Simperl, Johanna Walker | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Doomsday Clock

By Dan Drollette Jr | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”

By Dan Drollette Jr | Special Topics

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The six best Bulletin magazine articles of 2023

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

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The disruptive technologies year in review

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies