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

By John Mecklin | Artificial Intelligence, Military Applications of AI

If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI

By Moran Cerf, Adam Waytz | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state

By Ishan Sharma | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

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

Some disagree that it is 100 seconds to midnight. These undergrads held a debate

By Nitish Vaidyanathan | Climate Change, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Risk, Personal Essay

The inhumanity of nuclear deterrence

By James E. Doyle | Nuclear Weapons

Pope Francis and the fourth era of the Catholic Church’s engagement with science

By C. Z. Peppard | Climate Change

Playing God: Why religion belongs in the climate engineering debate

By F. Clingerman, K. J. O’Brien | Climate Change

Unmasking the truth: The science and policy of low-dose ionizing radiation

By Gordon Thompson | Uncategorized

A teachable moment for biological weapons: The Seventh BWC Review Conference and the need for international cooperation in education

By Brian Rappert | Uncategorized