The UK is facing a potentially “existential risk” to its homeland for the first time in decades, but is years away from being ...

Back when I covered finance, traders would talk about whether the markets were “risk off”—fearful of losses and retreating to the safest assets—or “risk on,” pouring money into riskier equities in the ...

The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.

Dr SJ Beard, an academic and research affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, a research centre based at the University of Cambridge, has written a new book titled Existential Hope: ...

AI agents promise convenience, but Signal’s president warns their deep access to personal data could power a wave of security ...

Most people generally are more concerned about the immediate risks of artificial intelligence than they are about a theoretical future in which AI threatens humanity. A new study by the University of ...

If it already feels like every day is like an apocalypse in the making here's another existential risk to ponder. Imagine a ...

Last summer, former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner published a 165-page analysis, “Situational Awareness, The Decade Ahead,” in which he argues that human-level, artificial general intelligence ...

In the early days of cryptocurrency, existential risk was the dominant concern. We woke up in the morning wondering whether some government might ban it, or if some major stablecoin like tether could ...

A new analysis claims that President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will result in rising energy costs across the country and could put nearly a million Americans out of work. That’s according ...

Charles J. Moxley, Jr. co-chair of the New York State Bar Association. The threat of nuclear war is with us again—in a way those of an older generation will recall from the Cold War. With Russia’s ...

What risks threaten the entire future of humanity within the next hundred years? And what should we do to protect against them? A group of researchers will take on these questions in the autumn as ...