At first it was assumed that mirror bacteria would be effectively harmless, because they can’t digest most of the ...

Nonhuman and human well-being are tightly linked and there are good reasons to include global losses of animal well-being and ...

This week, I’m dedicating the newsletter to a conversation I had recently with the futurist Zack Kass about some of the risks ...

So what can we do? Read More: What Donald Trump's Win Means For AI The existential risk of AI has often been presented as extremely complex. A 2018 paper, for example, called the development of ...

Look at how the Biden administration treats climate change.

In the search for extraterrestrial life, our best success could come from searching nearer to home than many astronomers would have guessed.

Musk's lawyers filed an injunction against OpenAI to stop its transition to a for-profit entity.

(Yes, our stock pickers say it is a stock pickers’ market!) The risk is that these stocks with hairs are exactly the types of unloved stocks going backwards in the index and machines ...

It’s easy to romanticize a past where sports were ‘freer,’ untethered by optimization and the influence of external ...