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5 Scenarios for Russia After Putin’s Next Term

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This weekend, Vladimir Putin will win another election as Russia’s president. The election will, of course, be rigged in Putin’s favor, just as all of his past elections have been, but Putin is all but assured to claim another six-year term, taking him to at least 2030.

Yet for all that inevitability, Putin’s next term as president has been the focus of surprisingly little discussion, including what it is likely to mean both inside and outside Russia. And that’s all … Read more

The Law of Worst-Case Scenarios

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The present Gaza war, initiated by Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, poses important questions about both the morality and laws of war and the language of conflict. People everywhere are having heated conversations involving concepts such as targeting civilians, terrorism, proportionality, and genocide. They deploy these concepts when arguing about broad questions, like whether Hamas’s attacks on civilians are justified resistance, and about narrower ones, like whether a specific Israeli bombing of a refugee camp is justified to … Read more

Artificial Armageddon? The 5 worst case scenarios for AI, revealed – from Terminator-like killer robots to helping terrorists develop deadly bioweapons

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A grave warning over the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) to humans has come from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today.   

While acknowledging the positive potential of the technology in areas such as healthcare, the PM said ‘humanity could lose control of AI completely’ with ‘incredibly serious’ consequences. 

The grave message coincides with the publication of a government report and comes ahead of the world’s first AI Safety Summit in Buckinghamshire next week.

Many of the world’s top scientists attending the

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Health chiefs are modelling worst-case bird flu scenarios in case killer virus jumps to humans

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A dozen people in Cambodia are suspected of being infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain in the same province where an 11-year-old girl died on Wednesday – raising fears the virus may be spreading from human to human for the first time in decades. 

Scientists are modelling how a worst-case scenario bird flu outbreak could sweep the UK if the virus spread to humans.

The Khmer Times – a local newspaper – reported that the suspected patients have all

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