Despite the increase, the underlying spirit of strict sufficiency—maintaining only what is necessary to protect France's ...

One of the biggest surprises following the US-Israel attacks on Iran was how quickly Iran targeted Persian Gulf energy infrastructure. In the early hours of the fighting, energy analysts were ...

AI social networks are where agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scale—and in which humans can lose control.

The emergence of plasma-based directed-energy weapon systems necessitates a reconceptualization of deterrence theory. Plasma ...

Health economists are growing concerned about the future economic consequences of falling vaccination rates in the United States. In some regions, they are well below the level necessary to stop ...

Political scientist Joseph Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami, talks about conspiracy theories and the people who believe them. Uscinski’s research has found that conspiracy theories are ...

In October 2022, Russian forces were on the brink of collapse in Ukraine, and it was unclear if major Russian army units could even evacuate back across the Dnipro River to safety. Discontent was ...

While trickery is old, what’s new is the very high level at which realistic- looking and -sounding “deepfake” photos and videos, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts can now be made—and the sheer ...

Since 2023, a significant number of published scholarly papers show signs of having been edited using AI tools. These tools are also being used to review papers and search and discovery tools, in ways ...

Gary Marcus discusses if the strike on a school in Iran stems from the use of artificial intelligence in the war.

Kathryn Olmsted, a history professor at the University of California Davis, talks about how American conspiracy theories have changed since World War I and are now focused more on government than on ...

AI tools can generate realistic deepfakes, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts at scale, that could flood analysts during crises with large volumes of information that overload their capabilities ...