Yes, we might think we’re invincible and capable of doing everything on our own, like John Wayne or James Bond; that is, until we suffer a serious injury or illness, or reach old age. That’s when we ...

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 ...

Back in 2023, Bengio and hundreds of other AI experts called for a moratorium on developing AI, saying the research community ...

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

Yoshua Bengio worries about AI’s capacity to deceive users in pursuit of its own goals. ‘The scenario in “2001: A Space Odyssey” is exactly like this,’ he says.

AI expert Yoshua Bengio cautions that machines with self-preservation goals could threaten humanity in the next 5 to 10 years ...

The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage ...

Almost every dystopian novel or movie begins by presaging the extinction of the human species. Here’s a partial list: The Handmaid’s Tale * A. I * The Hunger Games * Children of Men * Planet Of The ...

Scientists believe that 300,000 years ago in Lower Saxony, Homo heidelbergensis shared space with a now-extinct species of elephants ( Palaeoloxodon antiquus) along a lakeshore, thanks to newly ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans made it through.