Nick Bostrom uses the "Doomsday Argument" to explain why finding lie on Mars would be a bad indicator of the future of humanity.
The authors argue that on the 50th anniversary of the Space Age, the international community should take steps to regulate military competition and space debris to "protect our future in space as well as security on Earth."
Intelligence Amplification researchers are creating systems that approximate Artificial Intelligence by using actual human beings as part of computer programs. Humans are asked to perform quick actions (such as identifying a photo or song clip) that are trivial for humans but very difficult for computers. The resulting human input is then combined with computer algorithms to create smarter search engines or databases.
US military aircraft and monitoring centers scrambled yesterday to determine the size and type of the weapon that North Korea detonated in what is believed to be the reclusive regime's first test of a nuclear bomb.
The U.S. has deployed the USS Shiloh, a missile defense-capable ship, to Japan in a symbolic first step in a joint U.S.-Japanese program to try to shield Japan and the region from missile attack.
Four years after the leaders of the world's eight largest economies vowed to raise $20 billion over 10 years to prevent terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials, only $3.5 billion has been donated -- and far less has been used to secure enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon.
The author suggests proposing to launch satellites for North Korea as a way of ending the current crisis over missile testing.
The authors argue that a controversial plan to deploy conventionally-armed ICBMs on submarines would erode the global committment to reducing the proliferation of ballistic missiles.
North Korea has accelerated preparations for testing an intercontinental ballistic missile and the launch could come as early as this weekend, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
The CIA and the Pentagon would for the first time be required to assess the national security implications of climate change under proposed legislation intended to elevate global warming to a national defense issue.