M.A.D. refers to the full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides, resulting in one clear, obvious outcome – mutually assured destruction. Referee threatened to award touchdown to ...

AI researcher Dan Hendrycks and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt stress the dangers posed by superintelligent AI.

"A blockade or invasion may spell the end of the West’s advantage in AI," the authors said. "To mitigate this foreseeable ...

An AI that surpasses humans in virtually every intellectual domain “would amount to the most precarious technological development since the nuclear bomb,” the paper says. Like the atomic scientists of ...

Because mutually assured destruction has already occurred. There is no criminal complaint, so nobody is at risk of jail time. Both sides are shelling out hefty fees in legal representation for ...

Rather than pause and deeply reflect on the roots of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), as well as war itself, the world’s shallow “legacy media” accepts “national security,” and ever more destructive ...

Mutual assured destruction (MAD) was regarded as the bedrock of nuclear deterrence holding East and West bloc nuclear rivalry in check during the Cold War. But such pieties three decades from the end ...

There is no denying the fact that the theory of nuclear deterrence, mutually assured destruction (MAD) if an attack is staged, has delayed progress in international efforts toward the elimination ...