In a new book, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares hide their radical transhumanist agenda under the cover of concern about “AI Safety.”

As Netanyahu calls social media the “eighth front,” new documents reveal how Israel is paying to shape U.S. opinion.

To protect the living, we need clear norms about how we react to political violence.

As its influence faded, Washington dissembled and denied reality.

We don't need Democrats to 'fight back.' We need leaders who see the way out of the Trumpism crisis.

There is one way out of the partisan gerrymandering death spiral.

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Writer says for many years he has refused to use word but now must ‘with immense pain and with a broken heart’

Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of ‘brutal campaign’ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter A group of high-profile Israeli public figures, including academics, artists and public intellectuals, has called for “crippling sanctions” to be imposed by the international community on Israel, amid mounting horror over its starvation of Gaza. The 31 signatories of a letter to the Guardian include an Academy award recipient, Yuval Abraham; a former Israeli attorney general, Michael Ben-Yair; Avraham Burg, a former speaker of Israel’s parliament and former head of the Jewish Agency; and a number of recipients of the prestigious Israel prize, Israel’s highest cultural honour. Continue reading...

At a mansion overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of AI insiders met to debate one unsettling question: If humanity ends, what comes next?

Pamela Hemphill​ of Idaho is one of the more than 1,500 people whom Mr. Trump pardoned earlier this year​ for their roles in the U.S. Capitol Insurrection.

Fresh on the heels from his exit from Meta, former Facebook executive Nick Clegg is defending AI against copyright holders.