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existential risk

Three key misconceptions in the debate about AI and existential risk

By Jack Kelly | Artificial Intelligence, Voices of Tomorrow

Robots standing with a nuclear winter landscape in distance

Today’s AI threat: More like nuclear winter than nuclear war

By Daniel Zimmer, Johanna Rodehau-Noack | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Doomsday Clock

By Dan Drollette Jr | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

A scene from the 2023 Victory Day Parade in Moscow. Source: President of the Russian Federation.

Why a nuclear weapons ban would threaten, not save, humanity

By Zachary Kallenborn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Policy makers should plan for superintelligent AI, even if it never happens

By Zachary Kallenborn | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

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

Catastrophic risks are converging. It’s time for researchers to step out of their silos.

By Kayla Lucero-Matteucci | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow

Security camera at the Swiss National Museum

Existential espionage: How intelligence gathering can protect humanity

By Rumtin Sepasspour | Disruptive Technologies

Scared straight: How prophets of doom might save the world

By Émile P. Torres | Disruptive Technologies

The Greenland Ice Sheet was melting already in 2009

Revisiting the climate collapse: The view from Nuuk in the year 2070

By David Spratt | Climate Change, Doomsday Clock