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The author is an independent policy and strategy analyst, and alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad
It seems there is now an alternative to degrading and decimating ourselves through war and civil strife. It is easy, because there is nothing we need to do: just going down the present path will ensure continuing global warming, leading ultimately to run-away temperature rise and the possible demise of life on earth
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Rumours are swirling that OpenAI was nearing a new breakthrough in AGI, one that could upend the human-machine relationship and is at a stage where the human species needs to be concerned
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Yet, as we bemoan and suffer the pollution problem, one might note a few advantages
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Tunnelling and mountain-cutting for road-broadening in sensitive geologies will result in accidents like the one in Uttarakhand. Why worry about what AI may do when we can do so much to destroy ourselves?
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Funds are always scarce, but our governments seem to find enough for “show” projects of little practical value
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Far-sighted corporates need to redefine the CEO’s role and restructure the organisation. They may learn much by talking to orchestras and universities
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The future, then, for tech companies and job seekers is not limited to IT, or even to STEM
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To see a piece of stone and imagine a sculptured statue emerging from it, or “To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower” (William Blake), requires an ability that a computer might find difficult to comprehend or emulate
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Fractured roads and floods don’t promote the economy, nor does human suffering contribute to development. Policymakers need to reset their approach
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The space telescope on the two-tonne spacecraft will look across one-third of the sky, with its power enabling such far-sightedness as to look back 10 billion years
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