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artificial intelligence

Interview: ChatGPT has a holiday message for you all

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

Special: Will AI destroy art? Or just change it?

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

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

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