Even without runaway superintelligence or malicious intent, current AI systems risk triggering nuclear war by amplifying ...

There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the ...

Following recent reports of a death at a secretive Siberian disease research lab, author Annie Jacobsen has become a sought-after media interview. Some interviewers are now casting Jacobsen's new ...

A landmark 24-country study reveals that a majority of people worldwide embraces both nuclear deterrence and disarmament, ...

Editor’s note: A version of this piece originally appeared in the Cybernetic Forests newsletter and is published here with permission. On August 26, when OpenAI released its full technical report on ...

Iran’s nuclear dispute has entered a new and potentially more dangerous phase. Repeated US and Israeli threats of further strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure—particularly the newly identified ...

When Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Washington this week, one phrase demands particular attention: the “constructive relationship of strategic stability” they agreed to pursue in May.

In 2021, open-source researchers using satellite imagery discovered three fields in Western China containing 320 silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). This indicated a major growth in ...

More than half a century after the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) entered into force, it still has no standing system for verifying compliance. Since the last major attempt at closing that gap ...

AnnaJulia Yates is a research assistant at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

Emerson Mendoza Ayala is a travel and environmental investigative journalist and audiovisual communicator from Spain. He specializes in solutions-focused environmental and climate change reporting, ...