We must remove a trillion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere over the next 50 years in order to stop runaway climate warming. We need rapidly implementable, incentivized, and politically feasible solutions to climate change. Maddie Hall and Patrick Mellor [...]

Peter Eckersley discusses the Report on Algorithmic Risk Assessment Tools in the U.S. Criminal Justice System recently published by The Partnership on AI (PAI).

Whether any technology has positive or negative impact, to some extent depends on the people that create it, and the way that it is used - these are social factors. So we must ask, what kind of social structures, political, [...]

Dr. David Denkenberger: Collapse Scenarios & Interventions: If plan A is preventing the catastrophe, plan B is preventing the loss of civilization if there is a catastrophe. Jeffrey Ladish: Mitigating Uncertainty in Collapse Scenarios: Jeffrey outlines some of the key [...]

Eric Drexler, Robin Hanson, and Mark S. Miller: three individuals who have been pre-eminent luminaries in their fields for 30 years discuss alternative approaches to the current AI paradigm. What is unique and uniting about those approaches? They all outline [...]

Ted Nelson - information technology thinker, pioneer, philosopher, and founder of project Xanadu (1960) has been defending a vastly different web infrastructure: one that favors freedom, privacy, creativity, and understanding. These different models directly relate to the issue of modern [...]

Allison Duettmann challenges Aubrey De Grey with the top objections against longevity to be debunked and debated before opening up the floor to the public.

From Seasteading to YCombinator, to Sidewalk labs, Silicon Valley has thought a lot about improving governance and new cities. These dreams are finally moving into reality, as dirt is being moved, new cities are being built, and governance is being [...]