The US Government race against Nazi Germany to harness the power of nuclear fission. Show more The Manhattan Project was the codename for the US government’s top-secret programme to develop the ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a jingoistic call on social media for a “new Manhattan Project,” this time to win the so-called race for artificial intelligence supremacy.

In Part 1 of this series, I recalled being asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was so successful. I compared the timelines for the X-10 Graphite Reactor (nine months) to the ...

The curious minds at Aperture expose the secrets and suppressed knowledge surrounding the Manhattan Project. Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say ...

If Manhattan Project 2.0 is to succeed, the first thing that must be done is to eradicate the very thought that “We could never do that today!” That attitude must go. Replace it with “We can do ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. By February 1942, Iowa State’s head of physical chemistry, Frank Spedding, was contacted by the University of Chicago’s Manhattan Project team.

Key Points The Manhattan Project occurred between 1942 and 1946. It employed over 129,000 people at its peak and cost a total of $2 billion.

This was, of course, the Manhattan Project, a top-secret, US-led World War II research effort that led directly to the development of the first atomic bomb. Ultimately used […] ...

Ultimately, a Manhattan Project for superintelligence would fail because fortifying such an effort would be extremely difficult; the technology itself is destabilising and risks a loss of human ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt co-authored a paper warning the US about the dangers of an AI Manhattan Project. In the paper, Schmidt, Dan Hendrycks, and Alexandr Wang push for a more defensive ...

President Donald Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense project will require a whole-of-government effort on par with the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, according to a Space ...

Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, signed a paper warning the United States about the consequences of seeking a "Manhattan Project" for AGI.