Africa endures the same structural flaw, amplified by borders arbitrarily drawn during the 1884–1885 Berlin Conference to ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...

Google’s former AI chief, Geoffrey Hinton distinguishes between two ways in which AI poses an existential threat to humanity. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP) ...

Free Expression: A Minnesota assassination gives rise to the usual wave of opportunism from both sides of the spectrum. So-called existential risks seem to be everywhere. Climate change, artificial ...

In 1938, while sitting in a cafe on the Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre experienced a pivotal moment of revelation that would shape his philosophical thinking. Reflecting on the ...

In the midst of an existential crisis? What's it all about? Help is at hand from philosopher Julian Baggini. Listen on BBC Sounds: BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on existentialism Made by Somethin' Else, ...

Former Attorney General William Barr told Fox News that "the Democrats have to stop their grossly irresponsible talk about Trump being an existential threat to democracy. He is not." The statement ...

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Is AI on the verge of wiping out humanity? Or does the existential threat come from something — or someone — else? Photo by LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images In the weeks following OpenAI’s launch of ...

WHO AM I? What’s my purpose? What mark can I make on the world? Just about everyone has asked themselves these questions at some point in their lives, usually when they’re going through new life ...

If you find that thoughts of reality or life after death distract you from everyday life on a regular basis, this could be a symptom of existential obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Share on ...