One of my favourite slogans from the Paris uprising of 1968 was: 'Be realistic - demand the impossible!' Yet I do not believe it is impossible to create a United Nations genuinely founded on ...

The NIPCC reports show clearly that today's climate is not unusual and that there is very weak evidence for future climate ...

His own hands somewhat dirtied by the effort – he had been working on model pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic for over three years – Coxon suggests that the former is the more reprehensible of the ...

Jesus stooped, wrote in the dust on the ground, then stood up and gave his famous reply. The accusers walked away one by one, starting with the older men. Jesus told the woman he did not condemn her ...

Evan Hubinger, a leading Anthropic Alignment Scientist, publicly backed Coxon’s claims, stating he personally calculates a greater than 10 percent chance that unaligned AI will wipe out humanity ...

But stockpiles run down, whereas domestic production does not.

That distinction is important because public discussion sometimes creates the impression that a solution to the nation's nuclear waste dilemma is just around the corner. In reality, the United States ...

Rajat Kanti Satpati is an author of several books, including What We Let Fall Away. His writing explores democratic theory, political communication, literature and history. His essays and opinion ...

For Palestinians, the pursuit of Greater Israel does not mean a harsher occupation; it means the end of any political horizon. Rather than forming the basis of a future state, the West Bank is being ...

Weather patterns would shift as volcanic aerosols and ash alter rainfall and temperatures. Reduced sunlight and acid rain could damage crops across Java’s fertile volcanic soils, threatening rice and ...

On this count WA shows the way. Last financial year estimates put WA's budget surplus at +$3.5bn while Queensland's is estimated to be -$8.8bn. WA's net debt is 7.1 per cent of gross state product, ...

The point is not that journalism, law, acting or literature degrees produce better writers than creative-writing programmes. There is no evidence for such a claim. The point is that major Australian ...