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

Decades before the political battles between AI doomers and accelerationists, the rise of data centers as a campaign issue, ...

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

The concept of singularity presents a futuristic scenario where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence, creating existential risks for humanity. As we stand on the brink of unprecedented ...

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 ...

Yoshua Bengio of Université de Montréal and Mila – Quebec AI Institute has become one of the field’s most prominent voices warning about existential risks. Getty Images Yoshua Bengio, featured on this ...