This is what it will look like when the Earth is remade by grey goo – a broth of self-replicating nanobots that remold all matter in their own image. Ideas that informed this piece, from the artist: ...

Hollywood producers take note: The “gray goo” hypothesis is one of the most interesting doomsday scenarios out there. I know it sounds weird, but bear with me for a moment. Imagine that tiny bots were ...

Artificial intelligences aren’t going to take over Earth by building a bunch of robotic fashion models to karate-chop us to death. Instead, the A.I. takeover will come from a nasty nano-tech sludge ...