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.
To plan for the impacts of data centers on the grid, experts can take upfront deposits and analyze a scope of possible ...
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.
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 ...
To navigate the new nuclear age, US policymakers must revisit the foundational 1960s logic that prioritized strict ...
Security Studies Program at MIT’s Center for Nuclear Security Policy (CNSP).
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 ...
Earlier this year, researchers at King’s College London gave three commercial AI models—GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash—a tabletop exercise typically used to train human military ...
As the climate-change landscape evolves, new forms of scientific disinformation emerge. Just this week, President Trump spread one of the latest false claims: that the United Nations Intergovernmental ...
As flights take off from Washington’s Dulles Airport, few passengers realize what they’re looking at below. Sprawling across the landscape are hundreds of boxy, windowless buildings handling roughly ...