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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

A COVID-19 patient.

Could AI help bioterrorists unleash a new pandemic? A new study suggests not yet

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Retro illustration of a woman with technology contraption on her eyes

The disruptive technologies year in review

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

The WHO headquarters.

Public health agencies are using AI chatbots to ease workloads. Is it a good idea?

By Kimberly Ma | Biosecurity

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

AI robot at a computer

How creatives can stop AI from stealing their work

By Nick Vincent | Disruptive Technologies

Popping the chatbot hype balloon

By Sara Goudarzi | Special Topics

Introduction: The Hype, Peril, and Promise of Artificial Intelligence

By John Mecklin | Artificial Intelligence, Military Applications of AI

A gif of a newspaper being shredded

Can journalism resist a chatbot-fueled race to the bottom?

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

What happened when WMD experts tried to make the GPT-4 AI do bad things

By Thomas Gaulkin | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

There’s a ‘ChatGPT’ for biology. What could go wrong?

By Sean Ekins, Filippa Lentzos, Max Brackmann, Cédric Invernizzi | Biosecurity

Interview: ChatGPT has a holiday message for you all

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