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Prof Lord Martin Rees suggests it is easier to solve climate change on Earth than escape to another planet

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Finland is new to NATO’s nuclear alliance. With its legacy of neutrality and diplomacy, the new NATO member has the choice of whether to continue to explore avenues for diplomacy, or whether to turn up the reliance on nuclear weapons of mass destruction. Calling for these warheads to be based in Finland is provocative for threatening a form of nuclear proliferation under the benign term of “nuclear sharing.”

To control compute – to squeeze or open the spigot of processing power – is to control AI. In doing so, AI can be steered toward beneficial results while [...]

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The Doomsday Clock is not a precise risk assessment, it’s a flawed but powerful metaphor for the catastrophic risk humanity faces

The Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds until midnight amid rising concerns over world safety and peace.

Listen to the second episode of the NEVER podcast - Ok, Doomer! In this episode, we explore nuclear war, the first man-made existential risk. Featuring an introduction to the topic, disarmament versus deterrence, how governments have dealt with issues such as proliferation, and how they should respond to them in future.

A “deranged loner” could easily unleash a pandemic on the world with a homemade lab and off-the-shelf equipment, one of Britain’s most eminent scientists has warned.

Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal, said rogue individuals with the necessary expertise were a ‘looming danger’ and ‘the stuff of nightmares’