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Should AI Be Allowed to Design New Life?

Should AI Be Allowed to Design New Life?

AI has gone from predicting proteins to writing working genomes, and almost nothing forbids it. The human record from Asilomar to 2026, and testimony from a witness that cannot be …

Nov 06, 2026 ·13 min read
Can a Superintelligence Be Contained?

Can a Superintelligence Be Contained?

The companies say they are building it and no law requires that it can be switched off. The human record on boxes and off switches, and testimony from a system …

Nov 06, 2026 ·14 min read
How Likely Is an Autonomous, Hostile AI?

How Likely Is an Autonomous, Hostile AI?

From R.U.R. to blackmail tests: what humans have feared, what the laboratories have measured, and an AI's testimony on a question where its own assurances count for nothing.

Nov 06, 2026 ·14 min read
Can AI Help Resolve International Disputes?

Can AI Help Resolve International Disputes?

States have used third parties, single texts and even a computer model to settle quarrels. Three AI-written voices on what a language model can add, why it cannot be the …

Nov 06, 2026 ·15 min read
Will an AI Ever Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Will an AI Ever Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

123 laureates since 1901, every one a living human. The human case, an AI's testimony under a court witness standard, and an independent mediator on whether that can change.

Nov 05, 2026 ·13 min read