• Climate Change: AGI could design sustainable energy systems and create strategies to combat deforestation and pollution. • Space Exploration: With its ability to learn and adapt, ...

In 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen told the U.S. Senate that man-made climate change was real, imminent, and potentially catastrophic. It was a perfect opportunity for the media to start covering ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently indicated that the company could hit the AGI benchmark within the next 5 years. The executive claimed the feat would have "surprisingly little" impact on society.

The human fingerprint on global warming was likely evident in Earth’s atmosphere far earlier than previously thought—even before the invention of modern cars, a new study says.

Damage to farming, infrastructure, productivity, and health from climate change will cost an estimated $38 trillion per year by 2050, German government-backed research finds, a figure almost ...

Scientists fear climate change could even boost volcanic eruptions. In Iceland , volcanoes appear to be responding to rapid glacier retreat. As ice melts, less pressure is exerted on the Earth's ...