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Could AI Really Kill Us All? Your Questions, Answeredโญ10
A growing chorus warns AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. Here are answers to common questions about AI risk, alignment, and superintelligence.
The Download: AI's Extinction Risk and the Bioweapons Threatโญ8
AI's extinction risk and bioweapons threat: experts answer your questions on whether AI could really kill us all, plus the biotech wake-up call.
The Specter of AI-Enabled Bioweapons: A Wake-Up Call for Biotechโญ8
AI-enabled bioweapons are becoming a real threat as AI tools lower barriers to designing dangerous pathogens. Here's why biotech must act now on biosecurity.
SonoBase: An Open Ultrasound Foundation Model for Robustโญ8
SonoBase, an open ultrasound foundation model pretrained on SonoCorpus, delivers robust segmentation and clinical measurement accuracy across heterogeneous devi...
The Download: Mice with Part-Human Brains and Climate Tech Innovatorsโญ8
Scientists gave mice part-human brain cortices to study brain injuries, raising ethical questions. Plus: climate tech innovators and new AI safeguards.
Meet the Mouse with a Human Brain Cortex: Xenocortical Mice andโญ9
Xenocortical mice with human brain cortex cells are transforming neuroscience, enabling better disease modeling and drug testing for Alzheimer's, schizophrenia,...
Building the Materials Foundation for AIโญ8
Advanced materials are becoming critical to AI performance and sustainability as semiconductors and data centers reach physical limits, says Syensqo's Mike Fine...
The Download: AI's Trillion-Dollar Gamble and OpenAI's Biologyโญ9
OpenAI bets on paying for biology data as AI's trillion-dollar infrastructure gamble faces a steep path to profitability by 2030.
MechReason: A New Benchmark for Multi-Image, Multi-Hop Reasoningโญ8
MechReason, a 12k-question benchmark from real mechanical engineering papers, tests multi-image, multi-hop reasoning in MLLMs across explanation, prediction, de...
Roundtables: Could AI Really Kill Us All?โญ7
MIT experts debate whether advanced AI could really cause human extinction, where these fears come from, and what we should do about them.
