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Unforeseen consequences of new technologies put UK at risk Lords committee told that the risks associated with various emerging digital technologies must be assessed together, with input from UK citizens, if the government is to avoid ‘siloisation’ of fundamentally interconnected problems Share this item with your network: By Published: 14 Jan 2021 11:31 The UK government must focus on the relationships between different digital technologies when assessing their potential risks, which would help avoid the “siloisation” of fundamentally interconnected problems, expert witnesses ha...

Unfortunately, it’s precisely our short-term thinking that could mean life is far worse for future generations than it might otherwise be. How can we combat this deeply embedded short-termism and get people to think about centuries, millennia, and beyond? (File photo: Marco Xu/Unsplash) “Where do you see yourself in five years?” It’s a classic job interview question, designed to probe your level of ambition and aspiration. And it probes about as far ahead as many of us are likely to think: with so many distractions in the here and now, so many crises and challenges and opportunities t...

Jeremy Gaunt / Creative Commons Are we on the verge of societal collapse? We tend to worry about the big explosive stuff like nuclear war, asteroids, and solar flares when we consider end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenarios. The reality is that most "fallen" civilizations gradually decline over many decades with a banality that can barely register.  We often remember the decline of civilizations as the fault of poor leaders or natural disasters but it's more like death from a thousand cuts from conditions like inequality, corruption, and political dysfunction. That's (partly) what happ...

Disaster for the country like starting war or launching a nuke on purpose or not, or trying to dismantle other branches of government. that's one potential existential crisis for country with leadership problem. imagine creating new disaster out of whole cloth. other great existential risk is not hypothetical thing to worry about but something that's happening to some scale right now. it's already killing americans. and that's not some sci-fi dystopian thing, it's risk, inevitability that stuff will happen, crises will arise in more or less normal course of events. disaster, have a terrible hu...