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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

Dead before arrival: The governance of stratospheric aerosol injection

By Aaron Tang | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies

How emerging technology is shaping the future of intelligence.

Disruptive technologies in 2022

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state

By Ishan Sharma | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Newsstand. Credit: Claudio Schwarz. Unsplash License. https://unsplash.com/photos/C-F0o855g74

During an ‘epidemic’ of news avoidance, moderation is key

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Engineers Meeting in Robotic Research Laboratory. By Gorodenkoff. Standard license. stock.adobe.com

Do scientists need an AI Hippocratic oath? Maybe. Maybe not.

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

A US Marine launches a lethal miniature aerial missile system during an exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. on Sept. 2, 2020. Credit: Jennessa Davey, US Marine Corps.

Phoenix Ghosts are part drones, part missiles. How does that change combat?

By Dan Gettinger | Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

Royalty free photo under CC0 public domain license. Accessed via Piqsels.

Israel has long exported arms to India. Now it’s selling spyware too.

By Urvashi Sarkar | Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security, Uncategorized

PRESS RELEASE—At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight

By | What’s New at the Bulletin

A bus carrying a team of experts from the World Health Organization departs an airport in Wuhan on Jan. 14, 2021, after arriving in the Chinese city to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. That investigation is widely seen as having been obstructed by Chinese authorities. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

How COVID-19’s origins were obscured, by the East and the West

By Nicholas Wade | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

One conception of using lasers to power a spacecraft. (Image courtesy Breakthrough Initiatives at: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3)

Reaching for the stars: The case for cooperative governance of directed energy technologies

By Joan Johnson-Freese, Nikola Schmidt

Research on smallpox continues today. Photo credit: Centers for Disease Control

Synthetic biology: A call for a new culture of responsibility

By Ali Nouri, Shahram Seyedin-Noor | Opinion, Synthetic biology