To plan for the impacts of data centers on the grid, experts can take upfront deposits and analyze a scope of possible ...

To navigate the new nuclear age, US policymakers must revisit the foundational 1960s logic that prioritized strict ...

None of the measures US officials are considering to protect people from biological research risks would have caught major incidents at two high-level US government laboratories.

In ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, adversaries have turned to artificial intelligence technologies to accomplish their war objectives. The most stunning recent example of this ...

On June 12, Anthropic announced that the United States government issued the company a directive to suspend access to its latest large language models (LLMs) Mythos 5 and Fable 5 for any foreign ...

ELSI Working Group. 1994. Statement on The Bell Curve. https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/archiespace2024-03/ELSI%20WG%20Bell%20Curve.pdf Genetic Science ...

Founded by scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been alerting humanity to the ...

David A. Kirby is chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and professor of Science, Technology & Society at Cal Poly University-San Luis Obispo. He was a practicing evolutionary ...

The Bulletin’s disruptive technology vertical tracks a wide variety of scientific and technological advances that could—either in the present or the future—pose an existential threat to humanity.

Sumnima Singh is a senior AI x biosecurity fellow at the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative, where she focuses on AI-enabled biological risk. She conducted the research underlying this article as a ...

Security Studies Program at MIT’s Center for Nuclear Security Policy (CNSP).