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J. Robert Oppenheimer's grandson is among the star-studded signatories of a new open letter about the dangers of AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Oppenheimer’s Grandson Signs Letter Saying AI Threatens “Life on Earth”

By Noor Al-Sibai

CEOs from a diverse cross-section of Fortune 500 companies believe AI might destroy humanity — and they think it could happen soon.
Artificial Intelligence

42 Percent of CEOs Think AI May Destroy Humanity This Decade

By Noor Al-Sibai

Stressed out about a potential AI-wrought apocalypse? Billionaire Mark Cuban says that's fair, actually. Cheers!
Artificial Intelligence

Mark Cuban Says Yes, You Should Be Worried About AI Doomsday

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff described the kind of bunkers the super wealthy are building as they prepare for an apocalypse of some kind.
Climate Change

Don’t Panic, But the Super Wealthy Are Quietly Building Doomsday Bunkers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers are building a massive, indestructible box that’ll record scientific data to give future civilizations insight on how exactly humanity fell.
Climate Change

Scientists Are Building a “Black Box” to Record the End of Civilization

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk warned of climate change, comet strikes, and dropping birth rates — not to mention, in his words, "good ol' nuclear Armageddon."
Mars

Elon Musk: We Have to Get to Mars Because of “Nuclear Armageddon” on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A new study examined which places on Earth would be best prepared to deal with the collapse of global civilization. Did yours make the cut?
Science & Energy

Study: These Countries Are Most Likely to Survive Collapse of Civilization

By Jon Christian

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf suggests that it would be much easier to find intelligent extraterrestrial life while it's facing the apocalypse.
Science & Energy

Scientist: Aliens Facing the Apocalypse Would Be Easier to Find

By Dan Robitzski

The Survival Condo is a converted luxury condominium complex comprised of 15 floors, reaching 200 feet below the surface.
Nuclear Fusion

This Luxury Nuclear Apocalypse Bunker Has a Swimming Pool, Movie Theater and Sauna

By Victor Tangermann

Climatologist Alan Robock from Rutgers University and his team studied what an all-out nuclear war between world nations could look like.
Nuclear Fusion

Here’s Exactly How Screwed You’d Be in a Nuclear Apocalypse

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft-owned Github dumped physical copies of the world's open source code in an apocalypse-proof vault to save it for when society collapses.
Future Society

Microsoft Is Hiding Source Code in an Apocalypse-Proof Cave

By Dan Robitzski

In case the world collapses and modern gadgets fall into disrepair, a developer is making an operating system to run on salvaged computers.
Future Society

Someone Built an OS for Computers Salvaged After the World Ends

By Dan Robitzski

Tinder is about to launch a weekly apocalypse-themed event called Swipe Night that matches people based on how they play a choose-your-own-adventure game.
Future Society

Tinder Wants to Pair People Based on Their Apocalypse Strategy

By Dan Robitzski

A distressing Australian climate change analysis has some pretty bad news: human civilization is set out to collapse by 2050 if we ignore climate change.
Climate Change

New Research: Human Civilization Will Likely Collapse By 2050

By Victor Tangermann

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Future Society

Worried About Doomsday? You Can Rent This Bunker for $1000 Per Year

By Patrick Caughill

NASA Scientist Says We Need to Stop Worrying About the Apocalypse
Science & Energy

NASA Scientist Says We Need to Stop Worrying About the Apocalypse

By Brad Jones