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Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. But most of Africa's 1.3 billion people live with little advance knowledge of what’s to...

The first Africa Climate Summit opens Monday in Kenya to highlight the continent that will suffer the most from climate change while contributing to it the least. But most of Africas 1.3 billion people live with little advance knowledge of whats to come.

Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. Most of Africa’s 1.3 billion people get little advance knowledge of what’s ahead.

Systems for monitoring weather and water in Africa are “missing, outmoded or malfunctioning”, researchers warn.

Taplin, the educator, writer (Move Fast and Break Things), and film producer (Mean Streets, The Last Waltz), is director emeritus

Jaan Tallinn helped build Skype and is the founder of the Future of Life Institute.He recently warned of the risks of an AI arms race, describing theoretical

The slaughterbot reference comes from a 2017 short film called Slaughterbots, which was released by the Future of Life Institute.

"Putting AI in the military makes it very hard for humanity to control AI's trajectory," the Skype pioneer said, warning of a "literal arms race."

The climate crisis is increasing the frequency and intensity of floods, droughts and heatwaves, with Africa expected to be among the global regions hit hardest.

Jaan Tallinn, one of the co-founders of hit software like Skype and Kazaa, says AI poses an existential risk to humans.