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Leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies have pledged to develop safety frameworks and prioritize risk mitigation at the AI Seoul Summit in South Korea.

Dr Matt Boyd & Prof Nick Wilson* (Syndicated from the Adapt Research Blog) Efforts to prevent nuclear war should be greatly intensified – but we must also consider what happens if prevention fails. NZ is often cited as somewhere most likely to preserve a thriving society through a nuclear aftermath. However, our society is a complex adaptive system heavily dependent on trade. Major perturbations triggered by nuclear war could shift the state of NZ society from one of flourishing to one of...

The governments response to a report published by the House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning.

Dr Matt Boyd & Prof Nick Wilson* (Syndicated from the Adapt Research Blog) In this blog we briefly review the literature on the probability of nuclear war and what various models estimate to be the potential global climate impacts (eg, of nuclear winter). Although New Zealand is relatively well placed as a major food producer – a range of mitigation strategies could increase the probability of sustaining food security during a recovery period. To get the ball rolling the Government needs t...

Chair of committee points out unpreparedness for Covid shows better anticipation of future threats is needed

UK government needs a chief risk officer to boost resilience, experts say By Josh Lowe on 04/06/2021 Resilience after COVID-19: the government must seize the opportunity to prepare for extreme risks. Credit: Matthew Prior/Wikimedia Commons The UK government should adopt a “three lines of defence” model and establish a chief risk officer (CRO) to improve the country’s resilience, experts have suggested. Future Proof, a new report from the Centre for Long Term Resilience, considers how the ...