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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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 ...

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

Climate innovator Jae-Won Chung, for example, built software to make AI more energy-efficient. By measuring the energy ...

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

Danijar Hafner has a startup in stealth and a long track record of teaching AI agents about our world.

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

While advanced AI excels at processing clinical data, healthcare's true test lies in overcoming deeply fragmented ...