At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

The AI guru who puts extinction at 99.9 percent The starkest prediction comes from Roman Yampolskiy, an AI researcher who has spent years studying how advanced systems might slip beyond human control.

Pandemics and nuclear war are real, tangible concerns, more so than AI doom, at least to me, a scientist at the RAND Corporation. We do all kinds of research on national security issues and might be ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Mar 17, 2025, 06:12am EDT Mar 17, 2025, 01:42pm EDT Masai ...