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The Turing Award winner launched nonprofit LawZero with $30M to build safe-by-design AI. He says the industry's race toward agentic systems is turning theoretical risks into practical ones.

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Nick Bostrom is famed for developing simulation theory. Now he's turning his attention to AI -- and risk to humankind.

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Tech culture has made contempt for humanity feel enlightened. We can do better.

Thirty scientists have penned scathing responses to a study claiming the 14,500-year-old Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile is much younger than thought.