The 2023 Year in Review is not listed in any priority. It is a non-scientific, subjective review by Jerome C. Glenn (Jerome.Glenn@Millennium-Project.org and jglenn@igc.org)

1. ChatGPT wakes up the world to future AI impacts on education, work, culture.
2. Turkey/Syria Earthquake kills 50,000, triggers building codes new enforcement.
3. Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.
4. Europe survived winter with new energy sources.
5. Deepfakes, disinformation proliferates, no rules for information warfare.
6. UN Treaty to protect 30% of the oceans’ biodiversity by 2030 open for signature.
7. Every neural connection mapped in a larval fruit fly.
8. International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrant for Vladmir Putin.
9. Former President Trump is indited 4 times with total of 91 charges.
10. First X-ray image of a single atom.
11. First space solar power transmission from orbit to earth by Caltech.
12. Pure chicken meat from genetic material without chickens USDA approved.
13. UN Security Council explores the security implications of artificial intelligence.
14. China creates first national laws to regulate generative AI.
15. July-October were the hottest months in recorded history.
16. Massive demonstrations in Israel over reducing the supreme court’s power.
17. Hamas invades Israel, global condemnation of Israel for devastating response.
18. China passes the US in number of scientific articles in the Nature Index.
19. India passes China as the most populous nation.
20. Building blocks of life (methenium, CH3+ (and/or carbon cation, C+) detected in interstellar space.
21. FDA approval for testing brain chips implants in humans by Neuralink.
22. World Summit II on Parliamentary Committees for the Future held in Uruguay.
23. India lands on near moon’s south poll, while Russia crashed a few days before.
24. Human brain activity translated into continuous stream of text.
25. Organized crime received $2.2 trillion from cybercrimes, while it cost business and individuals $8 trillion in 2023.
26. European Court of Human Rights to hear global warming case against 33.
    governments (first serious example of intergenerational law).
27. US and China, plus 27 other countries sign Bletchley Declaration on international cooperation to develop safe AI.
28. Alzheimer’s disease onset decreased by 35% by Donanemab drug.
29. Mico- and nanoplastics pass the blood-brain barrier in mice.
30. Electronics grown inside living tissue furthers new field of bioelectronics.
31. The global average temperature temporarily exceeds 2°C above the pre-industrial average November 17th for the first time in recorded history.
32. COP28 in Dubai and COP29 in Baku announced, both oil-dependent economies.
33. Google claims Gemini has advanced reasoning beyond GPT-4.
34. Presidents Xi and Biden agree to joint US-China AI safety working group.

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