David Collingridge News Today

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To address the potential future risks posed by AI, one writer believes we should take a deeper look at the underlying financial incentives.

Unlike the risks from AI’s capabilities, the economic risks from new technologies are knowable and can be mitigated.

Centralising the power of AI with a few profit-driven entities facing future economic incentives for bad behaviour is a not a good idea

Resolving AI challenges requires global cooperation - or waiting for a crisis that brings the need for multilateralism into sharper focus.

Beware of activists touting "responsible research and innovation." The sensible-sounding slogan masks a reactionary agenda.

Leading oncologists and doctors have set out the desperate and urgent need for action to tackle the crisis engulfing UK cancer services. They urge the government to address the situation in a letter.

The Lancet Oncology Commission report says Nigeria lost about 5.9 billion dollars to cancer deaths and other cancer-related factors in 2019.

A report by The Lancet Oncology Commission on the challenge of cancer in sub-Saharan Africa has revealed that Nigeria lost $5.9 billion in 2019 through cancer-related deaths.

As climate change worsens, the once-unimaginable power to use technology to cool the planet—a method known as "solar geoengineering"—has quietly