The Great Filter theory suggests that our lack of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations may arise from either their ...

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

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

Which is ideally how we should be handling new existential risks. Think about the letter R, and its mirror image, the letter Я. No matter how much you spin the letter R on a two-dimensional page ...

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

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

If fund managers cannot work this one out, they could be gone before the problem gets a chance to fix itself. Small ...

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