Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Viewpoint: How AI-enabled corruption of the information environment might lead to an increased risk of nuclear escalation
In recent years, analysts and scholars have noted that corruption or dysfunction in the global information ecosystem could have the ...
Viewpoint: Climate change propaganda and disinformation are now the official position of the U.S. government
The Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists recently won a court case against the administration which forced it to ...
Viewpoint: Someone created a synthetic cousin of smallpox: Where are the alarm bells?
In 2017, the virologist David Evans made headlines when he used synthetic biology to recreate the extinct horsepox virus, which ...
How Russian ‘disinformation’ could threaten our biosecurity
In a series of increasingly confrontational statements, Russia has suggested that the Pentagon is establishing a chain of bio-weapons labs ...