Two respected nonprofits said that even the best-prepared companies had worrying gaps on existential risk in their plans.

According to Dictionary.com, we’ve been tackling a lot of heavy stuff in 2019. That’s why the site chose its word of the year to be “existential.” ...

Given the scale and uncertainty of existential threats, intelligence is key. This is a view that the Global Trends report itself makes: “Such low-probability, high-impact events are difficult to ...

Existential vertigo over human origins. ... “One thing that really struck me in this conference is how fragile and accidental the emergence of intelligence on Earth was,” says Wilczek.