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The director James Cameron has warned that the use of artificial intelligence in a global arms race could lead to the kind of dystopia fictionalised in his Terminator franchise. Speaking to Rolling Stone to promote the publication of Ghosts of Hiroshima, an account of the first atomic bombing by bestselling author Charles Pellegrino which Cameron intends to adapt for the …

Man-made risks such as nuclear war or lab-created viruses are most likely to bring about the end of the world as we know it, according to author Tom Ough, who has written a new book about threats to humanity’s existence   In 1900, a complex, geared contraption was rescued from an Ancient Greek shipwreck. The Antikythera Mechanism, as it was …