Here's the big picture I try to keep in mind when I'm deciding how to spend my time

The lessons from this scandal about sunscreen products surely apply to AI platforms as well: it's insufficient for society to trust the sometimes lax testing processes of companies who want to claim their products are safe.

Worth watching!.

5) Biostasis in the UK.6) Accelerating toward Longevity Escape Velocity.7) TransVision Madrid.8) Aubrai – pioneering BioAgent and ecosystem governance token.

"Bold claims for a better future" - the latest from @LondonFuturists:.1) Unofficial Book Launch Party: IABIED.2) Invitation to Collaborate: Existential Risk InfoHub.3) The future of global AI governance.4) Foresight Sparks – London Futurists in the Pub.(continued)

For more details, and to register to attend, see (6/6).

If you want to prepare your provocation in advance, please get in touch with the organisers to reserve your speaking slot. We'll give preference to people with something genuinely new to say. (5/6).

To keep the meeting lively, each speaker will be restricted to 7 minutes maximum. We'll hear from a number of different speaker before having several wider conversations. (4/6).

In this London Futurists in the Pub meetup, we'll be giving short speaking opportunities to any of our attendees who believe they have important sparks of foresight that are worth sharing and debating. (3/6).

What are the tools, the sources of energy, the breakthrough technologies, the new operating models, the emerging campaigns, the creative thought patterns, the silent dangers, or the hidden stores of treasure, that people should be talking about more? (2/6).

After a break over the summer months, real-life @LondonFuturists in-the-Pub events are resuming on Thursday 11th September. From the meetup page:. Which insights about possible near-term future scenarios deserve greater attention? (1/6)

I'm looking forward to this event at 5pm UK time this Friday, where we'll be reviewing some of the first hypotheses arising from online interactions with @Aubrai_.

Aubrai continues to collect research funding for RMR2.

The World Academy of Art and Science (@_WAAS_) 'EXTRA' taskforce has recently launched a very useful InfoHub on ‘Existential Threats and Risks to All’. Join members of this taskforce with @LondonFuturists on 20th Sept as they invite further collaboration

"A compelling theory of China vs. America" - A dive into the theory that "America is run by lawyers, and China is run by engineers" - and why it's a bit more complicated than that

"The departures are the strongest public signal yet that Meta Superintelligence Labs could be off to a rocky start".

History could be rewritten. Including how the term "artificial intelligence" first came to mind.

For more details and to register to attend, see (*) That assessment is based on an episode with Nate Soares on the London Futurists Podcast, and also a two-hour online discussion between Nate and Tim Urban.

I'm fairly sure (*) that the forthcoming new book by Yudkowsky and Soares will become the most highly discussed book on the existential risks posed by AGI. PauseAI UK are holding their own event at London's Newspeak House on Monday 22 Sept to mark this publication of the book.

"The Promises and Pitfalls of Decentralised Science" - my latest article for @Mindplex_AI

I'm particularly looking forward to the three-way interaction between @PaulKhls, @AubreydeGrey, and @Aubrai_. For those not in Copenhagen, you can watch it at