AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy says when it comes to avoiding existential risks, you only get one chance.

The topic of human extinction — its possibility, its likelihood, even its inevitability — is everywhere right now. Major media outlets publish articles and broadcast interviews on the subject, and ...

The future is big. Almost unimaginably big. Take the human population, for example. If humanity sticks around at its current population level for as long as the Earth remains habitable—somewhere ...

Pandemics and nuclear war are real, tangible concerns, more so than AI doom, at least to me, a scientist at the RAND Corporation. We do all kinds of research on national security issues and might be ...

View post: Amazon is selling a $120 stainless steel pan set for just $43, and it makes a great gift Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific leader of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Could humans suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs? While there’s still a lot of uncertainty around the risk potentially posed by artificial intelligence, some experts have some concerns AI could ...

Associate Curator, La Brea Tar Pits; Adjunct Faculty, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles Emily Lindsey receives funding from the National ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human ...

The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human ...

Roughly 13,000 years ago, Ice Age animals such as saber-toothed cats, the American lion and mammoths started going extinct in the Los Angeles basin, about a thousand years before their extinction in ...