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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

Watch now—The Artificial Intelligence Era: What will the future look like?

By Halley Posner | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Perdix drone swarm test.

Meet the future weapon of mass destruction, the drone swarm

By Zachary Kallenborn | Disruptive Technologies

A screen shot of the AMY1 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant widely used as a model organism in plant biology. (US government photo)

How to protect the world from ultra-targeted biological weapons

By Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology

Artificial intelligence and disruptive technology

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Examples of composite images designed to be used in disinformation campaigns. Left and Center: This anti-Widodo hashtag was added to the building through the use of a digital image-editing tool. The modification was detected by an algorithm that searches images for inconsistencies in the statistics of their pixels. Right: The CNN International logo has been added to a false news story about Widodo.

An AI early warning system to monitor online disinformation, stop violence, and protect elections

By Michael Yankoski, Tim Weninger, Walter Scheirer | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia

Examples of composite images designed to be used in disinformation campaigns. Left and Center: This anti-Widodo hashtag was added to the building through the use of a digital image-editing tool. The modification was detected by an algorithm that searches images for inconsistencies in the statistics of their pixels. Right: The CNN International logo has been added to a false news story about Widodo.

An AI early warning system to monitor online disinformation, stop violence, and protect elections

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

Computer code on world map.

Online disinformation and emerging tech: Are democracies at risk?

By Brad Allenby | Disruptive Technologies