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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, looks on during a campaign rally at The Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas on September 13, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Will Trump try to end democracy? Yes — but these scholars claim he can’t pull it off

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Thumbs Up, Drowning In Data (Photo illustration by Salon/GEtty Images)

AI doomers have warned of the tech-pocalypse — while doing their best to accelerate it

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Post Apocalyptic Urban Landscape (Getty Images/Bulgac)

We’re all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world

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A Greek flag flutters in the wind during a wildfire in Chasia in the outskirts of Athens on August 22, 2023. (ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Think this summer was bad? It might be the best one you and I will ever see

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AI hand holding a nuclear fusion reaction (Getty Images/Ole_CNX)

Will “godlike AI” kill us all — or unlock the secrets of the universe? Probably not

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Futuristic city with an organic architecture (Getty Images/3000ad)

Dangerous visions: How the quest for utopia could lead to catastrophe

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Robot holding human skull (Getty Images/xia yuan)

AI and the threat of “human extinction”: What are the tech-bros worried about? It’s not you and me

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People on a city street (Getty Images)

The COVID pandemic may be “over” — but the pandemic of loneliness is getting worse

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Doomsday Clock (Getty Images/VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The Doomsday Clock is an imperfect metaphor — but the existential danger is all too real

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People walk amid skeletons in a drought affected area in Mandera, Kenya on December 1, 2022. | A view of flood-hit areas as families struggle while winter comes in Mehar, Dadu District, Sindh province, Pakistan on October 22, 2022. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Climate reparations: It’s the right thing to do — and will create a better world for everyone

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Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, testifies during the House Financial Services Committee hearing titled Digital Assets and the Future of Finance: Understanding the Challenges and Benefits of Financial Innovation in the United States, in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

What the Sam Bankman-Fried debacle can teach us about “longtermism”

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Climate protesters hold a demonstration as they throw cans of tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery in London, United Kingdom on October 14, 2022. (Just Stop Oil / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Soup on the van Gogh: The painting’s fine, and the kids are all right

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Man shouting into megaphone (Getty Images/Anton Vierietin)

“White Psychodrama” and the culture wars: A self-reinforcing cycle, going nowhere

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William MacAskill (Photo by Matt Crockett / Courtesy of Basic Books)

Selling “longtermism”: How PR and marketing drive a controversial new movement

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(L-R) Nick Bostrom Philosopher at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Sir Francis Galton the father of Eugenics (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Understanding “longtermism”: Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic

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Futuristic Robot AI Leadership Concept (Getty Images/gremlin)

Would “artificial superintelligence” lead to the end of life on Earth? It’s not a stupid question

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Elon Musk (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

How Elon Musk sees the future: His bizarre sci-fi vision should concern us all

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Elon Musk (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk, Twitter and the future: His long-term vision is even weirder than you think

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People struggle to cross the boundary wall of Hamid Karzai International Airport to flee the country after rumors that foreign countries are evacuating people even without visas, after the Taliban over run of Kabul, Afghanistan, 16 August 2021. | A building was destroyed after Hurricane Ida passed through on August 30, 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana. | Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/STR/NurPhoto/Brandon Bell/Samuel Corum)

Can we clean up the mess we’ve created? We have to do it now, or face extinction

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Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right

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Sam Harris (HBO)

Sam Harris and Donald Trump: They’re completely different … yet very much alike

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Steven Pinker (Getty Images/Salon)

Steven Pinker, Sam Harris and the epidemic of annoying white male intellectuals

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Steven Pinker (Getty/Brad Barket)

Steven Pinker’s fake enlightenment: His book is full of misleading claims and false assertions

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If 2016 was the most important election in history, this is our chance to begin undoing it

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