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The frame problem: The AI “arms race” isn’t one

By Heather M. Roff | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Scientific advocacy: A tool for assessing the risks of engagement

By Gavin Schmidt, Simon D. Donner | Uncategorized

Technology assessment and the social and human impact of innovation

By Fred Young Phillips, Deog-Seong Oh | Uncategorized

The Insurer’s Fallacy and the value of nuclear weapons

By Ivan Oelrich | Nuclear Weapons

Dragons, mules, and honeybees: Barriers, carriers, and unwitting enablers of climate change action

By Robert Gifford | Uncategorized

Underestimating effects: Why causation probabilities need to be replaced in regulation, policy, and the law

By Sander Greenland | Uncategorized

The scientific jigsaw puzzle: Fitting the pieces of the low-level radiation debate

By Jan Beyea | Uncategorized

Fukushima and the inevitability of accidents

By Charles Perrow | Uncategorized

Nuclear power and the public

By M.V. Ramana | Uncategorized