Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist.

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 ...

I’ve spent most of my life terrified of climate change and the apocalyptic future it seems destined to create. I was 2 years old when climate scientist James Hansen historically testified before ...

This week, thousands of TikTok users were whipped into an apocalyptic frenzy as viral predictions of the 'Rapture' spread online. However, rather embarrassingly for the preachers who predicted it, the ...

The difference in the scope of their crisis focus represents the most evident divergence in their thinking. Hawking's ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

Shutting down AI research isn’t the answer—but stronger safety and risk planning is essential Could artificial intelligence wipe out the human race? According to Michael J.D. Vermeer, a senior ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

Among the many worries about artificial intelligence, the most dire is described in a new book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nates ...

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...