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

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.

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

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Imagining what would happen to Earth if humans suddenly disappeared.