07Sep
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Global cooperation urgently needed to govern risks of advanced AI

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  • AGI, artificial intelligence, global risks, governance, report
A new report by The Millennium Project warns that advanced artificial intelligence systems could emerge sooner than expected, posing unprecedented risks unless prudent governance frameworks are rapidly put in place. Download the report. The report titled International Governance Issues of the Transition from Artificial Narrow Intelligence to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a distillation of […]
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04Sep
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Exploring the research dynamics of futures studies – New publication on Futures

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  • futures, futures studies, GIS, Italy Node, publications, topic modeling
A new publication on Futures, Volume 153, on “Exploring the research dynamics of futures studies: An analysis of six top journals” by Simone Di Zio, Italy Node Co-Chair, together with Alice Tontodimamma, Emiliano del Gobbo, and Lara Fontanella, is now available on line. The paper focuses on the global literature on Futures Studies and foresight […]
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08Aug
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FEN DEMO HOUR on Scalable Fruit Workshops – August 17, 2023

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  • Demo Hour, foresight europe network, Helsinki Node
On August 17th, 2023, from 16:00 to 17:30 CEST, our regional Node FEN – Foresight Europe Network, will be hosting its monthly Demo Hour on Scalable Fruit Workshops, This time the session will take place in collaboration with the network JFS Futures Community. In the spirit of Demo Hour’s first network collaboration effort, FEN member […]
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02Aug
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The Millennium Project Newsletter – July/August 2023

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  • AGI, Brussels Node, Costa Rica Node, Greece Node, newsletter, Russia Node, UN Security Council, UN Summit for the fuutre
A new issue of our Newsletter is out! Read more about considerations on Artificial General Intelligence #AGI discussed on journals and institutions, recent events, such as the Association of Professional Futurists – APF 20th anniversary, and upcoming ones, such as the United Nations Summit for the #Future, the #FuturesWeek in Bolivias, and new publications by […]
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31Jul
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Futures Week and “Latin America by 2050” launch – Bolivia, Sept. 25-29, 2023

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  • Bolivia Node, futures week, Global Challenges, Latin America 2050, Mexico Node, publication
Futures Week, hosted in La Paz and Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on September 25-29, 2023, is a week of co-creation of futures to discover the potential of different realities that will help us build the world that we all dream of. The event, organized by the Franz Tamayo University, UNIFRANZ, chairing the Bolivia Node of The […]
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31Jul
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The need for AGI regulation – 2nd US Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee on AI

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  • AI regulation, artificial intelligence, senate hearing
by Jerome Glenn The US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held a second hearing on oversight and regulation of AI, during which the need for AGI regulation was stressed. The first hearing was carried out on May 2023. In this session, carried out on July 25, 2023, witnesses testifying included Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at […]
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31Jul
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Suggestions for the UN Summit for the Future

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  • artificial intelligence, environment and health, governance, our common futures, peace and security, summit for the future, transnational organized crime, UN office of existential threats, united nations
Futurists contact your Ministry of Foreign Affairs! There will be a Ministerial Meeting for the UN Summit for the Future September 18th this year for input planning for the following year’s Summit on the Future 2024. The Millennium Project suggests that Futurists in each country contact their Ministry of Foreign Affairs and find out their […]
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25Jul
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Indicatores Internacionales para la toma de decisiones en Costa Rica 2022

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  • Costa Rica Node, Indicators, mideplan
The Ministerio de Planificación Nacional y Política Económica (Mideplan), hosting the Costa Rica Node of The Millennium Project, recently published the fifth report on “Indicadores Internacionales para la toma de decisiones 2022“, edited, among others, by Carlos Alonso Marschall Murillo, Chair of the Costa Rica Node. This report on Costa Rica in the light of […]
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25Jul
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The Discovery of the Future – June 6-8, 2024

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The Department of Sociology and Social Sciences of the University of Trento organizes, under the patronage of the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems, the international conference on “The Discovery of the Future in the Social and Human Sciences: Changing science from a primarily past-oriented effort to a primarily future-oriented effort”, 6-8 June 2024. Among the […]
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21Jul
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UN Security Council meeting on Artificial Intelligence on July 18, 2023 – intake

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  • artificial general intelligence, intake, UN Security Council, united nations
by Jerome Glenn The UN Security Council first ever meeting on AI opened with briefings from Jack Clark of Anthropic (developer of Claude 2 recent competitor with ChatGPT) and Yi Zeng, Cognitive Intelligence Lab, Instituted of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Jack Clark said governments should come together to create safe AI and not let […]
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