In October 2022, Russian forces were on the brink of collapse in Ukraine, and it was unclear if major Russian army units could even evacuate back across the Dnipro River to safety. Discontent was ...

AI tools can generate realistic deepfakes, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts at scale, that could flood analysts during crises with large volumes of information that overload their capabilities ...

Political scientist Joseph Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami, talks about conspiracy theories and the people who believe them. Uscinski’s research has found that conspiracy theories are ...

Since 2023, a significant number of published scholarly papers show signs of having been edited using AI tools. These tools are also being used to review papers and search and discovery tools, in ways ...

While trickery is old, what’s new is the very high level at which realistic- looking and -sounding “deepfake” photos and videos, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts can now be made—and the sheer ...

Kathryn Olmsted, a history professor at the University of California Davis, talks about how American conspiracy theories have changed since World War I and are now focused more on government than on ...

The Free Press likes to publish provocative takes that punch holes in established ideologies. When that ethos is applied to the subject of climate change, the result is a largely one-sided perspective ...

Gary Marcus discusses if the strike on a school in Iran stems from the use of artificial intelligence in the war.

Removing the climate science chapter advances neither science nor the law. It only deprives judges of a resource needed to do their jobs.

To say that “No one died from radiation at Fukushima” or “There have been no deaths or cases of radiation sickness from the nuclear accident” misses the point, considering what the Japanese call ...

Chancellor & Dean and the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. He is also a Professor in the School of Medicine at University ...

The deployment of AI in military raises questions related to human accountability, ethics, and pre-deployment evaluation processes.