Even without runaway superintelligence or malicious intent, current AI systems risk triggering nuclear war by amplifying ...

Following recent reports of a death at a secretive Siberian disease research lab, author Annie Jacobsen has become a sought-after media interview. Some interviewers are now casting Jacobsen's new ...

There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the ...

A landmark 24-country study reveals that a majority of people worldwide embraces both nuclear deterrence and disarmament, ...

Since President Eisenhower more-or-less invented the term military-industrial complex, US defense spending has grown, dramatically in some eras, leveling off a bit in others, but overall heading ...

Eden is senior research scholar (Emeritus) at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her scholarly work focuses on the military and society; science, technology, and ...

AnnaJulia Yates is a research assistant at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

Seth Grae is chairman and chief executive officer of Lightbridge Corporation (Nasdaq: LTBR), a nuclear fuel technology company. Thomas Graham Jr. chaired Lightbridge’s board from 2009 to 2024.

How does the COVID-19 pandemic compare to viral outbreaks of the past? As the world lurches into a fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the official death count based on public disclosures is ...

A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war. Little is known about the ...

In the middle of May, I drove to Universal Studios Hollywood and proceeded, per instruction, to Jurassic Parking (yes, that really is the name of the parking garage). I then walked down the Citywalk ...