At the University of Chicago’s Existential Risk Laboratory, researchers study how emerging technologies like AI could amplify ...

The CEOs of what are widely seen as the three most cutting-edge AI labs— Sam Altman of OpenAI, Demis Hassabis of DeepMind, ...

Constantly improving AI would create a positive feedback loop: an intelligence explosion. We would be no match for it.

Summary The Doomsday Clock seeks to capture the severity of the existential threats facing humankind, as understood by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. While initially focused on nuclear ...

A new analysis claims that President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will result in rising energy costs across the country and could put nearly a million Americans out of work. That’s according ...

In “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the HAL 9000 was built to be infallible. Instead, it became dangerously misaligned with its human operators: It prioritized its survival over the humans’ safety. Though ...

Doomsayers want us all to believe an AI coup could happen, but industry pioneers are pushing back. Many are shrugging off the supposed existential risks of AI, labeling them a distraction. They argue ...

Artificial intelligence could pose existential risks and governments need to know how to make sure the technology is not "misused by evil people," former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned. "And ...

Across universities and research centers, experts are studying how nuclear weapons, engineered pathogens, and artificial intelligence could reshape humanity’s future.

Bitcoin's developers just started discussing a critical new security proposal.