Tiny urban forests can help rewild urban settings and help fight climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese 🇯🇵 botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global.

Happy to be featured in the Responsible Tech Guide 2022 by the brilliant All Tech Is Human. This is a truly valuable resource! Download here: alltechishuman.org/responsible-te… #AI #AIethics #digitaltech #technology #fornature #sustainability #environment #responsibletech

Full-text link to my latest paper "Nonhuman Value". Possibly of interest to anyone working on #AnimalWelfare, #AI and #AIethics, #sentience, #ArtificialSentience, #MoralCircleExpansion, or #NatureRights. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s… #EffectiveAltruism #GCR

The "distraction argument" comes full circle. "The dominant turn to #AI principles is not just fruitless but a dangerous distraction." - "The Uselessness of #AIEthics" by Luke Munn and published in SpringerEthics doi.org/10.1007/s43681…

The Responsible Tech Guide by All Tech Is Human is an extensive resource for anyone interested in making sure technology is a good thing for the world. Happy to be part of it! Download here: alltechishuman.org/responsible-te… #AI #AIEthics #ForNature #ResponsibleTech #Technology #GCR

Dear colleagues! I'll be leaving GCRI by the end of 22. I'd appreciate any help in finding a new meaningful position within #GCR/#Xrisk/#AnimalWelfare/#EffectiveAltruism/#Longtermism. CV here: andreaowe.com/about-cv Dream org: Rethink Priorities. Hope to remain a colleague!💚

The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/

Announcing the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program! NYU Animal Studies will soon be launching a new program that examines what wild animals are like, how humans and wild animals interact, and how humans can improve our interactions with wild animals at scale. 🧵👇 nyu.edu/about/news-pub…

Humans have wiped out almost 70% of animal populations in half a century. We need to do better. Protect life in all its diversity.

Roadblock in Tanzania.. x.com/buitengebieden…

It cannot and should not come as a surprise to anyone that there are no ethical billionaires, nor that the world's richest cannot be the world's most altruistic. I hope this makes for some serious self scrutiny of our community and its associations. #effectivealtruism #FTX #SBF

GCR/X-risk community: Please spend a moment to take this important survey for a project by @CSERSJ Centre for the Study of Existential Risk to understand and improve #diversity and #inclusion in the field: cser.ac.uk/news/new-surve… Please share! #GCR #Xrisk #effectivealtruism

'Just don't build AGI' tshirts doing the rounds at NeurIPS? Love it.

1/5 Morgenbladet har laget sak om oss ifm. senterets oppstart, med refleksjoner fra styreleder Eirik Mofoss og fagrådsmedlemmene Dan Banik og Steinar Holden: morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/2023/0… .

#metacrisis #existentialrisk #existentialriskfromthewild #environment #nature #ai #climatechange #fornature

#metacrisis #existentialrisk #existentialriskfromthewild #environment #nature #ai #climatechange #fornature

#metacrisis #existentialrisk #existentialriskfromthewild #environment #nature #ai #climatechange #fornature

We evolved to live in small tribes and now live outside of our natural habitat, in an advanced civilization. One effect of this mismatch is that there are a bunch of things that feel dangerous to us that aren't actually dangerous, leading us to be way too risk averse. Like: -

#metacrisis #existentialrisk #existentialriskfromthewild #environment #nature #ai #climatechange #fornature