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In January 2023 the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic representation of worldwide peril, plummeted to a mere 90 seconds from midnight. That's 90 seconds away from what experts ominously term "global annihilation". As the 2024 unveiling is only days away, have we slipped even closer to total annihilation?

In January 2023 the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic representation of worldwide peril, plummeted to a mere 90 seconds from midnight. That's 90 seconds away from what experts ominously term "global annihilation". As the 2024 unveiling is only days away, have we slipped even closer to total annihilation?

On the cusp of a new year, it’s worth reflecting on the progress AI has made over the past twelve months, as well as what might lie ahead in 2024.

If you find yourself talking to a tech bro about AI, be warned that they might ask you about your p(doom), the hot new statistic that's become part of the quotidian lingo among Silicon Valley researchers in recent months, The New York Times reports. P(doom), or probability of doom, is a quasi-empirical way of expressing […]

When we look for sex and play, where do we go? ArtsHub attends 'Live Futures: Queer Cultural Safety and Existential Risk' to find out.

For people who worry about AI destroying the world, the ructions at OpenAI have been confusing and alarming.

This second Risk Dialogue will explore implications for governance at the national and international levels. The Global Risk Dialogues will bring together global experts and practitioners to discuss what this means, in practice.

A major interdisciplinary initiative has been launched that aims to meet the challenges and opportunities of new technologies as they emerge, today and far into the future.

Joel Christoph is a PhD Student in Economics at the European University Institute (EUI) in Italy. He is also a Bretton Woods 2.0 Fellow of the Atlantic Council and a Dahrendorf Fellow of Oxford...

Edan Simpson joined the European Leadership Network in December 2022 as Projects and Communications Coordinator, with responsibility over the New European Voices on Existential Risk (NEVER)...