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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

bitcoin crash on screen of cryptocurrency exchange

Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering

By Aaron Arnold | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Credit: World Economic Forum / swiss-image.ch / Valeriano DiDomenico CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

A new voice chimes in on regulating facial recognition and big-tech

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

The legalities of leaving nuclear

By Alexandre Faro | Uncategorized

Back to the future: Controlling synthetic life science trade in DNA sequences

By Gabrielle Samuel, Michael J. Selgelid, Ian Kerridge | Uncategorized