Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.

The potential for catastrophic effects from the AI boom demands robust deliberation and real democratic governance. Localized initiatives like data center moratoria won't get us there.

What would a postcarbon future look like? How would a more just, decarbonized world require us to change the way we live? What would it take to build this wo... | CUP

And why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field.

Did cloud seeding trigger the Texas floods? No, but that didn’t stop the online rumours

In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.

It seems increasingly likely that artificial intelligence will mean major changes to the economy and daily life. We need a public jobs program for displaced workers, and we should regulate AI as a pub...

By many estimates, the increasing use of artificial intelligence is set to produce significant job losses. The prospect of serious disruption demands that we start formulating egalitarian policy solut...

Conspiratorial-environmentalism’s connection to climate and geoengineering; the anti-vax movement; and what it tells us about mainstream environmentalism and climate politics. David and Ed chat with ...

By Samuel Bagenstos NYU Law professor Noah Rosenblum posted on Bluesky yesterday that “[t]here has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short)...

How to address solar geoengineering’s transparency problem

Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.

Balloon launches from around the world are part of a new kind of global alarm system: One that can detect if another country tries to dim the sun.

Below is Chapter 8 of After Geoengineering, published in 2019 by Verso. This manuscript was written at the end of 2017 and beginning of…