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The best multimedia stories of 2023

By Thomas Gaulkin, Erik English | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

President Joe Biden hosts a meeting on Artificial Intelligence, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at The Fairmont hotel in San Francisco.

Costly signaling: How highlighting intent can help governments avoid dangerous AI miscalculations

By Owen J. Daniels, Andrew Imbrie | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI and the future of warfare: The troubling evidence from the US military

By Paul Lushenko | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

Hollywood, nuclear war, and the art of saving the world

By Emilia Javorsky | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

A test of antibacterial resistance.

Can’t quite develop that dangerous pathogen? AI may soon be able to help

By Allison Berke | 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

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive to announce the Biden administration's approach to artificial intelligence Monday. President Biden issued a new executive order on Monday, directing his administration to create a new chief AI officer, track companies developing the most powerful AI systems, adopt stronger privacy policies, and "both deploy AI and guard against its possible bias," creating new safety guidelines and industry standards. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A first take on the White House executive order on AI: A great start that perhaps doesn’t go far enough

By Gary Marcus | 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

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