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Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, how to face a new era of global catastrophic risks

By Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Spotting Frankensteins: Why humans beat AI at detecting freakish fakes

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state

By Ishan Sharma | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Why policy makers should beware claims of new ‘arms races’

By Haydn Belfield, Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

How commercial satellite imagery could soon make nuclear secrecy very difficult—if not impossible

By Igor Moric | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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

Facial recognition.

Is your face gay? Conservative? Criminal? AI researchers are asking the wrong questions

By Trenton W. Ford | Disruptive Technologies

Visitors check out an infinity chamber at the "Futurium" in Berlin, a venue where significant national and international developments in scientific, technical and social research are to be presented and discussed among the government, the scientific community, industry, and society. (Photo credit: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

Book excerpt: Urges to violence

By Robert Latiff | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Security

satellite image of area near N Korea nuke research plant

Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity

By Sulgiye Park, Allison Puccioni, Rodney C. Ewing | Technology and Security

DeepMind’s David Silver speaks to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters. Photo provided by David Silver and used with permission.

DeepMind’s David Silver on games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A police officer with a camera.

It’s time to address facial recognition, the most troubling law enforcement AI tool

By Trenton W. Ford | Artificial Intelligence

Meme Warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes

By Michael Yankoski, Walter Scheirer, Tim Weninger | Disruptive Technologies