Jobs vs. AI – how to avoid a dystopian future
Artificial intelligence (AI) poses three main threats to human health and wellbeing: Hyperagentic interference is preventable Hyperagentic interference is the extreme scenario, but it is already happening. Reporting around the planning for military strikes against Iran suggests some targeting decisions were made by AI…
Keep readingSM26: Cooperate to prevent chaos
The Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (SM26) bring together diplomats, agency directors, experts, and stakeholders, from more than 100 countries. After a year of painful, deadly, and destabilizing shock cuts to development and humanitarian programs, the future of development…
Keep readingAssessing the balance of hidden costs & co-benefits
Industrial activity creates many efficiencies, but it also creates a new problem that human societies have not been able to effectively address—the tendency toward depletion of resources at scale, with speed and effciency that no person or entity can manage or control. That has…
Keep readingMoon mission for all humanity
On Thursday, the crew of the Artemis II mission executed a maneuver called the Translunar Injection burn. The TLI burn reoriented their Orion spacecraft, called Integrity, and added sufficient thrust to push them out of Earth orbit, on course for the Moon. They are the first human…
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Who can you trust?
It is an unfortunate fact of our historical moment that across the world, people seem to be united by a worsening lack of trust in established institutions. There are many reasons for this, but the following stand out as common across the world: All of these dynamics, which are observable in everyday life around the…
Leading locally just got much more important
The risks and costs imposed by climate-disrupting pollution are real, pervasive, and getting worse. This is an observable reality, not a forecast. Local communities, regional economies, and international supply chains, are all facing rising costs and increased risk of operational failure. Climate preparedness and resilience planning (CPR) is an operational imperative. The pervasive cost and…
