Otto Barten is director of the Existential Risk Observatory, a nonprofit aiming to reduce existential risk by informing the public debate. Technological progress can excite us, politics can infuriate ...

Booking Holdings Chief Financial Officer Ewout Steenbergen said AI can expand the company's total addressable market and ...

Fancy words go in and out of fashion, positing an existential temptation to overuse. The late 1990s gave us “literally.” People literally used “literally” to emphasize almost any point — even one that ...

IN THE PAST year, as the startling capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have emerged into public view, attention has been drawn to the existential risk, or “x-risk”, that the technology may ...

An existential crisis is a recurring pattern of thoughts regarding your identity, purpose in life, and legacy, among other things. Existential questions may appear at any point in your life and can ...

While it’s easy to frame active ETFs as a direct threat, the reality is more nuanced. ETFs bring undeniable advantages, but ...

Existential horror is a subgenre that deals with ideas of insignificance, isolation, and the unsettling fact that humanity is just a speck in a dark, uncaring universe; in short, it's perfect horror ...

Gifted children tend to obsess over existential realities. Their parents, in turn, struggle with addressing their worries, ...

Life is full of questions. Sometimes you wonder what the meaning of life is and why you are here in the first place. Existential therapy helps put a lot of focus on the human condition as a whole. It ...