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

Anthropic AI is growing rapidly in usage among companies, but with the Trump administration declaring economic war on the ...

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

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

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 ...

Earth is closer than it’s ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a science-oriented advocacy group ...

Picture a vault that only opens if you prove you know a specific combination. You never need to reveal the combination itself ...