In the short term, the recent calls for a voluntary slowdown from A.I. executives including Mr. Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon ...

As AI leaders warn of catastrophe, public pressure is spurring safety commitments and offering a lesson from post-2008 markets.

The world has ended. The sky has fallen. Doomsday has come and gone. So now what? Let’s start rebuilding civilization, of course. How would you begin to come back from an apocalypse? What could you ...

How can this technology be captured for the glory of God and the advancement of the Gospel?

The time on the symbolic Doomsday Clock — designed by scientists to measure how close the world is to an apocalypse — will be recalibrated next week. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will host a ...

As AI systems grow more powerful, Anthropic’s resident philosopher says the startup is betting Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to avoid disaster. That post talked of a nation of geniuses in ...

From Cylons to Skynet, movies and TV shows have spent decades imagining what would happen if machines decided humans were just too annoying to keep around.

After a biological apocalypse, humanity’s only hope is a city called Olympus, run by an AI named Gaia. Most of the city is inhabited by genetically-engineered, semi-tech Bioroids, creatures whose ...

In “Joker: Folie à Deux,” “Megalopolis” and more, the sense of an isolated and fearful humanity pervades this season’s films. By Alissa Wilkinson The apocalypse started earlier this year. Back in ...