Without being overly alarmist, this should serve as a wake-up call for our colleagues in the ‘AI in drug discovery’ community,” the authors wrote at the time. It was a wake-up call for David Magnus, a ...

One of the ways AI could potentially cause catastrophic harm is by aiding the design and creation of bioweapons. In 2022, researchers found that it was remarkably easy to do this with an AI “molecule ...

You had a lot of questions about the recent claims that humanity is facing an existential risk from AI. We had a go at answering a few.

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Employees at the world's leading AI labs are saying there's a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are ...

AI companies are making impressive mathematical strides. Human mathematicians are losing out.

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A new report from the nonprofit Reflective lays out the experiments needed to better understand our ability to dim the sun.

The distribution of wealth follows a well-known pattern sometimes called an 80:20 rule: 80 percent of the wealth is owned by 20 percent of the people. Indeed, a report last year concluded that just ...