The U.S. restricted Anthropic’s powerful Fable model. Cybersecurity experts say that could backfire
Fable 5 was built to help with advanced cybersecurity work. Its sudden shutdown highlights a dilemma at the heart of AI security: the same tools can aid both defenders and attackers
Trump’s Genesis Mission puts AI to work on nuclear weapons
The Department of Energy bills Genesis as an AI push for scientific discovery. Its first public challenges tell a different story
Readers respond to the March 2026 issue
Letters to the editors for the March 2026 issue of Scientific American
Timnit Gebru
On safeguarding independent research in the age of big tech
Jieneng Chen
Creating artificial-intelligence tools for cancer detection
The lab never sleeps. Can the science keep up?
Robots and AI are running experiments around the clock, from battery chemistry to cancer therapies. But can they be trusted to get it right?
Kaiyi Jiang
Creating AI platforms to discover new therapeutics
JianJun Jin
Formulating software for the study of plant genomes
Dmitrii Kochkov
Making artificial-intelligence tools to predict what climate change will mean for extreme weather
Christina V. Theodoris
Creating artificial-intelligence models to find treatments for cardiac diseases
Alex L. Zhang
Making artificial-intelligence recursive language models more efficient
Lvmin Zhang
Developing artificial-intelligence systems to enhance digital art creation