Daniel Kokotajlo predicted the end of the world would happen in April 2027. In AI 2027 —a document outlining the impending ...

Last year speculation mounted that the end of humanity as we know it could be nigh thanks to the growth of AI, and now ...

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 ...

The Trump administration seems intent on undermining America’s ability to make human rights a significant element of its foreign policy. As evidence of that, consider its plan to dramatically reduce ...

In a $30 million mansion perched on a cliff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of AI researchers, philosophers, and technologists gathered to discuss the end of humanity. The Sunday afternoon ...

By some counts, this century has already marked the passage of 18 religious doomsdays, with no Earth-shattering “KABOOM!” in sight. So, how and when will the world end? Some argue that AI will kill ...

Like the dinosaurs who lived here 245 million years ago, everything that lives must end. Yet saying this doesn’t make it easy to imagine the end of humanity, just as it must have been hard for the ...

Humans have a predilection for doomsday predictions. Witness the much-hyped technological terror of the Y2K, or year 2000, bug, which failed to crash critical systems ...

Physicist Heinz von Foerster predicted back in 1960 that the world would end in 2026. von Foerster stated in his prediction that the world would ultimately end because of "infinite" over-population.