To plan for the impacts of data centers on the grid, experts can take upfront deposits and analyze a scope of possible ...

None of the measures US officials are considering to protect people from biological research risks would have caught major incidents at two high-level US government laboratories.

On June 12, Anthropic announced that the United States government issued the company a directive to suspend access to its latest large language models (LLMs) Mythos 5 and Fable 5 for any foreign ...

To navigate the new nuclear age, US policymakers must revisit the foundational 1960s logic that prioritized strict ...

In ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, adversaries have turned to artificial intelligence technologies to accomplish their war objectives. The most stunning recent example of this ...

A major industry safety report from 2026 found that several frontier AI labs have recently added restrictions to their systems since they could not rule out that their models might assist novices in ...

ELSI Working Group. 1994. Statement on The Bell Curve. https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/archiespace2024-03/ELSI%20WG%20Bell%20Curve.pdf Genetic Science ...

The Bulletin’s disruptive technology vertical tracks a wide variety of scientific and technological advances that could—either in the present or the future—pose an existential threat to humanity.

Security Studies Program at MIT’s Center for Nuclear Security Policy (CNSP).

Americans are now getting more of their electricity from solar than from coal—a whopping big change from the early 2000s, when coal was king. And solar’s rise is accelerating, provides more than twice ...

The US National Science Foundation is planning to remove hundreds of ocean monitoring instruments from four sites in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Scientists use data from the observational network ...