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My slides are ready for my talk in Austin this Wednesday: "The radical future of AI: The promise and the peril, the science fiction and the science fact, and our actions!" lu.ma/dyjyxv4h?tk=...

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Sergey Brin urges a turbocharged effort to win the "final race to AGI" - "Competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to AGI is afoot... I think we have all the ingredients to win this race, but we are going to have to turbocharge our efforts" www.businesstoday.in/technology/n...

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What's the most humanitarian way to spend ten million euros? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM-t...

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An important example of the pattern that biased data leads to AI that makes faulty recommendations: since science publications prioritise positive results over negative failures, AI (like humans) can be misled into proposing drugs that won't work www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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A quick word about Ârc at Austin: Monday 3rd to Wednesday 5th March www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySJj...

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Recent discussions in Paris about the future of AI raise fundamental questions not only about technology, but also about the effective coordination of multiple institutions & processes - according to Rebecca Finlay of PAI in the London Futurists Podcast londonfuturists.buzzsprout.com/2028982/epis...

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I heartily recommend this 1 hr 55 mins masterclass from Aubrey de Grey on the LEVITY Podcast, interviewed by Peter Ottsjö and Patrick Linden, on the damage repair approach to ending aging, addressing the main objections which have been raised against it shows.acast.com/levity-the-l...

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The visible tip of a much larger operation? - "Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian-linked bribes" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bolshevism with a technocratic veneer - "Taking a chainsaw to Chesterton's Fence - American conservatives are sinking into collective madness" dgardner.substack.com/p/taking-a-c...

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The destruction accelerates - "Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings" electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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"Beyond Human : Exploring Transhumanism and Superintelligence" - a thoughtful write-up of my keynote and Q&A on Monday at TheMerode in Brussels www.furt-her.com/beyond-human...

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"How AI Might Take Over in 2 Years" - depressingly plausible www.lesswrong.com/posts/KFJ2LF...

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"With the rapid advancement of AI and the possibilities of human enhancement, we stand at the brink of a new era—one filled with unprecedented opportunities and daunting risks" - That's my topic this evening in Brussels at TheMerode www.themerode.com/en/event/bey...

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The Economic Singularity is approaching fast. Those who were sure their employment prospects would remain strong are having to reconsider - "Silicon Valley Software Engineers Horrified as They Can't Easily Find Jobs Anymore" futurism.com/silicon-vall...

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There are lots of great online sessions scheduled by Adam Ford for 28th Feb and 1st Mar, as celebration of Future Day this year. Note that the times are listed in PST (UTC-8). Registration links and more details here www.scifuture.org/future-day-2...

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Can new reputation markets, supported by guaranteed sanctions, and with reliable monitoring of how large compute is being used, overcome the "Darwinian trap" of the AI race? See the recording of yesterday's London Futurists webinar featuring Kristian Rönn www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsCE...

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Are you in or near Austin TX on 3rd March? Join this Ârc event where Aubrey de Grey and I will be among the speakers highlighting what can be done to reverse aging sooner rather than later. I'll be speaking on the role of AI in accelerating the advent of Longevity Escape Velocity lu.ma/lu5jkgb4

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On reflection, the rebranding of the UK AISI from an "AI Safety Institute" to an "AI Security Institute" is smart. An emphasis on security helps to de-politicise the initiative, so it should gain stronger bipartisan support www.transformernews.ai/p/the-ai-sec...

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The first in the new London Futurists series of webinars on "addressing root causes" takes place tomorrow, Sat 15 Feb, at 4pm UK time. It features philosopher and entrepreneur Kristian Rönn, highlighting themes from his fascinating book "The Darwinian Trap" www.meetup.com/london-futur...

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I had forgotten how good this is www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYN...

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"Two meetings in the next four days" - the latest from London Futurists: 1) Experiments with AI; 2) News from Paris and Riyadh – tomorrow evening; 3) Engineering Darwinian angels, with Kristian Rönn. londonfuturists.com/2025/02/11/t...

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For those not in Paris, or who couldn't get a ticket, you can watch the live stream from 7pm UK time tonight of this event I'm chairing featuring Yoshua Bengio and other distinguished speakers on the safety of advanced AI www.youtube.com/live/qBdox9V...

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Move aside, humans! "'The end goal is replacing the human workforce with machines,' said a U.S. official closely watching DOGE activity. 'Everything that can be machine-automated will be. And the technocrats will replace the bureaucrats.'" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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"The AI Action Summit statement, set to be signed by countries next week, is a 'wasted opportunity', experts say - and looks unlikely to be signed by US officials". I trust that it will be significantly revised before Tuesday! www.transformernews.ai/p/leaked-ai-...

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This is the most disturbing chart from the AGILE Index on Global AI Safety Readiness that has just been released by the Global AI Governance Observatory agile-index.ai/global-index...

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"UK Politicians Call for Binding AI Regulation: For the first time, UK parliamentarians have come together to acknowledge the extinction threat from AI, building a cross-party coalition in support of binding regulations to address this." By Control AI controlai.news/p/uk-politic...

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Ahead of today's "Big AI Tech Debate" in Cambridge at the CW AI SIG, I'm re-reading the provocative analysis by James Pethokoukis "Xi Jinping an AI Doomer? If Only!" with its six reasons why AI accelerationists will prevail within China www.aei.org/articles/xi-...

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Don't. Look. Up. "Unexpectedly warm January puzzles climate scientists" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"Join us to talk AGI, colonising space, having nuclear fusion powering our cities, curing all disease, and leading humanity to abundance" - there are just a few tickets left for tomorrow evening's Techno Optimists in-person event in Shoreditch, East London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/techno-opt...

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I've boarded my flight for the Hevolution Foundation #GHS2025 summit taking place Tues and Wed. The theme: Global Healthspan Summit: Architecting the Future. I'm looking forward to helping focus minds on the most promising solutions for extending healthspans for all! www.ghs2025.com

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Perhaps the best video ever on the evolution of aging? It makes it very plausible that biological aging involves many separate processes - so that the solution to aging will need to involve many separate damage-repair mechanisms. By Primer Learning www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Jb...

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Is "agentic AI" just a new name for an old phenomenon? Will AI agents become mainstream in 2025, and might they disrupt entire industries? Tom Davenport shares his characteristic insight in the latest London Futurists Podcast episode londonfuturists.buzzsprout.com/2028982/epis...

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