Now, in a new conversation with the Wall Street Journal, Bengio didn’t mince his words: at this rate, he believes we’re ...

Yes, we might think we’re invincible and capable of doing everything on our own, like John Wayne or James Bond; that is, until we suffer a serious injury or illness, or reach old age. That’s when we ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

Yoshua Bengio worries about AI’s capacity to deceive users in pursuit of its own goals. ‘The scenario in “2001: A Space Odyssey” is exactly like this,’ he says.

AI expert Yoshua Bengio cautions that machines with self-preservation goals could threaten humanity in the next 5 to 10 years ...

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

Population estimates say the Earth’s human population may pass 10 billion people in 2080. But what goes up must come down.

Almost every dystopian novel or movie begins by presaging the extinction of the human species. Here’s a partial list: The Handmaid’s Tale * A. I * The Hunger Games * Children of Men * Planet Of The ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such ...

Not an accolade anyone wants, but for the Xerces blue butterfly, its extinction is considered the first of any American ...