At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Humanity has always lived with risk, but for most of history those dangers were local, temporary, and survivable. What has changed is that our technology, our numbers, and our impact on the planet now ...

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 ...

My fellow pro-growth Up Wingers, I just ran across a new academic paper that serves as a good reminder: Despite all the calm, cautious talk from AI worriers about “pauses, “ “safety,” “governance,” ...