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Investment in ‘hydromet systems’ using technologies from AI to SMS would provide a nine-to-one ROI in saved lives and assets across African nations.

Extreme weather exacerbated by climate change is already devastating parts of Africa – but the continent has only a tiny fraction of the monitoring capabilities of the west. There are just 37 weather stations covering the African continent, and only half provide enough data for forecasting. Investment in ‘hydromet systems’ using technologies from AI to SMS would provide a nine-to-one ROI in saved lives and assets across African nations.

EXCLUSIVE: The world is full of risks and threats, from super-eruptions to all-out nuclear war. Three experts have weighed in and given their takes on what the end of humanity might look like and whether we have a chance of surviving it.

A polycrisis is not just a set of isolated crises happening at the same time, but a set of interacting crises that are producing greater harm.

How can we explain the explosive emergence of global awareness of the polycrisis over the past year, 2022-2023? Three years ago, almost no one had heard

How can we explain the explosive emergence of global awareness of the polycrisis over the past year, 2022-2023? Three years ago, almost no one had heard of

I recently wrote a piece about an AI program that held a news conference that said we humans were in the way.....for those that too goddamn lazy to read it the first time around.... https://lobotero.com/2023/07/10/ai-whats-next/ To extend this line of thinking and reporting there has been an AI enhanced robot that was asked a probing…

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A new Cambridge University institute will try to harness the good and anticipate the bad effects of artificial intelligence

Simultaneously, debt trapped Sri Lanka’s US “Force” backed President Ranil Rajapakse tangoed at the colonial Club de Paris while attending Macron’s June