Advancements in AI, robotics, and space exploration are driving us towards a future of sustainable abundance, enabled by innovations such as space-based solar power, humanoid robots, and scalable AI infrastructure. ## ## Questions to inspire discussion.
Terafabs and AI Chips.
đ ïž Q: What are Elon Muskâs plans for terafabs?
A: Musk plans to build terafabs with 10 lines, each producing 100k wafers/month, costing **$10â20 billion/line.
đ Q: What challenges do AI chips face for scaling?
A: Scaling AI faces bottlenecks in AI chips and energy, with Muskâs terafabs and solar power as key solutions.
A debate/discussion on ASI (artificial superintelligence) between Foresight Senior Fellow Mark S. Miller and MIRI founder Eliezer Yudkowsky. Sharing similar long-term goals, they nevertheless reach opposite conclusions on best strategy.
âWhat are the best strategies for addressing risks from artificial superintelligence? In this 4-hour conversation, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Mark Miller discuss their cruxes for disagreement. While Eliezer advocates an international treaty that bans anyone from building it, Mark argues that such a pause would make an ASI singleton more likely â which he sees as the greatest danger.â
What are the best strategies for addressing extreme risks from artificial superintelligence? In this 4-hour conversation, decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky and computer scientist Mark Miller discuss their cruxes for disagreement.
They examine the future of AI, existential risk, and whether alignment is even possible. Topics include AI risk scenarios, coalition dynamics, secure systems like seL4, hardware exploits like Rowhammer, molecular engineering with AlphaFold, and historical analogies like nuclear arms control. They explore superintelligence governance, multipolar vs singleton futures, and the philosophical challenges of trust, verification, and control in a post-AGI world.
Moderated by Christine Peterson, the discussion seeks the least risky strategy for reaching a preferred state amid superintelligent AI risks. Yudkowsky warns of catastrophic outcomes if AGI is not controlled, while Miller advocates decentralizing power and preserving human institutions as AI evolves.
Plastic pollution is a âgrave, growing and under-recognized dangerâ to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday.
The new review of the existing evidence, which was carried out by leading health researchers and doctors, was published one day ahead of fresh talks opening in Geneva aiming to seal the worldâs first treaty on plastic pollution.
âPlastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1.5 trillion annually,â said the review in The Lancet medical journal.
The startup behind Chicagoâs more than $1 billion quantum computing deal said operations are expected to start in three years, a win for Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who backed the investment and is widely seen as a potential presidential candidate.
PsiQuantum Corp. will start construction at the stateâs new quantum and microelectronics park in the South Side of Chicago later this year, Chief Executive Officer Jeremy OâBrien said in an interview at Bloombergâs Chicago office. The supercomputer â one of two utility-scale, fault-tolerant machines the company is building globally â is expected to be online in 2028, he said.
Australia has offered a lifeline to the people of Tuvalu, whose island is threatened by rising sea levels. But the deal comes with strings attached â and there will be millions more climate migrants in need of refuge by 2050
Adriano V. Autino gave a Technical Presentation at U.N. COPUOS Legal Subcommittee, the 6 May 2025, on behalf of Dennis OâBrien, Chair of the Space Renaissance Academy Space Law Comittee: âClarifying ambiguities of the Outer Space Treatyâ
Hydroacoustic signals captured by the worldâs international nuclear monitoring system suggest an underwater landslide may have broken communications cables and disrupted internet traffic in west African countries for several weeks in March 2024.
Researchers used data collected by hydrophones installed by the International Monitoring System of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) to determine the location of the possible landslide, placing it along the steep slopes of Trou Sans Fond Canyon offshore of Ivory Coast.
The proposed landslide corresponds with the timing and location of four broken cables in the canyon, according to Vaibhav Vijay Ingale of UC San Diegoâs Scripps Institution of Oceanography and colleagues, who shared their findings in Seismological Research Letters.
In a week in which the Global Plastics Treaty is being negotiated, researchers from RIKEN & the University of Tokyo unveil a solution for marine pollution.
What impacts have climate change mitigation strategies had on the ozone layer? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) investigated the rate of Antarctic ozone recovery due to a reduction in human-caused ozone-depleting substances (ODSs). This study has the potential to help researchers, climate scientists, legislators, and the public better understand the benefits of climate change mitigation strategies on healing the environment for both the short and long term.
For the study, the researchers used a combination of satellite imagery data and a series of computer models to ascertain the extent of the Antarctic ozone recovery based on seasons and altitude between 2005 and now. The team conducted various models to identify a pattern in Antarctic ozone recovery, which they call a âfingerprintâ. After comparing this to the satellite data, the team ascertained that the Antarctic ozone has been healing due to decreased levels of ODSs.
âAfter 15 years of observational records, we see this signal to noise with 95 percent confidence, suggesting thereâs only a very small chance that the observed pattern similarity can be explained by variability noise,â said Peidong Wang, who is a PhD student in MITâs Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and lead author of the study. âThis gives us confidence in the fingerprint. It also gives us confidence that we can solve environmental problems. What we can learn from ozone studies is how different countries can swiftly follow these treaties to decrease emissions.â
