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

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 ...

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

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

AI social networks are where agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scale—and in which humans can lose control.

Artificial intelligence researchers are now publicly divided over how dangerous their own systems might become, even as some senior staff quietly leave the biggest labs building those tools. Two ...

The Doomsday Clock—a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947—was recently moved to ...