The “godfathers” of AI have joined an unlikely mix of royals, politicians, business leaders, and TV personalities in signing a statement urging a ban on developing “superintelligence” over fears it ...

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Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

We’ve got some good news and some bad news. The bad news first? Okay. Well, humans will go extinct. And there’s a popular but ...

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A study published in 2023 suggests that nearly 1 million years ago, humanity almost ceased to exist. This potential mass extinction event was discovered by researchers when they began analyzing the ...

Tech CEOs are locked in an artificial intelligence “arms race” that risks wiping out humanity, said computer science researcher Stuart Russell. Countries and companies are spending big on building ...

In his encyclical on the dangers of artificial intelligence last month, Pope Leo XIV said that AI must be "disarmed". "To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating ...

The first people to inhabit the Americas had a singular obsession: the biggest animals on the landscape. A July 2026 study in ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there's a hidden ...