One of the ways AI could potentially cause catastrophic harm is by aiding the design and creation of bioweapons. In 2022, researchers found that it was remarkably easy to do this with an AI “molecule ...

You had a lot of questions about the recent claims that humanity is facing an existential risk from AI. We had a go at answering a few.

Without being overly alarmist, this should serve as a wake-up call for our colleagues in the ‘AI in drug discovery’ community,” the authors wrote at the time. It was a wake-up call for David Magnus, a ...

Now, they’ve taken things a step further by genetically modifying mice so their brains don’t fully develop in the first place ...

Climate innovator Jae-Won Chung, for example, built software to make AI more energy-efficient. By measuring the energy ...

Now, Pașca has taken things a step further by genetically modifying mice so their brains don’t fully develop in the first place. These modified mice are missing most cells of both the cortex and the ...

As AI pushes semiconductors and data centers toward new physical limits, advanced materials are becoming critical to ...

When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of uncertainties. So she started ...

Employees at the world's leading AI labs are saying there's a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are ...

Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush it with a preservative ...

The OpenAI Foundation is funding a new effort called Data for Public Health. Last year, the clinical trial policy analyst Ruxandra Teslo posted an idea for super-charging medical AI systems: use data ...

In the aftermath of a cyberattack carried out by a swarm of OpenAI agents, the heads of top labs agree they need to slow down ...