Just announced: "Take Back Tomorrow", a London Futurists webinar on 31st Jan, exploring the timely bold new "The Bad Future" initiative of @futuristgerd.com. Liselotte Lyngsø will be providing real-time feedback. For more details and to register see www.meetup.com/london-futur...

In a time of rapid political, technological, and healthcare changes, is the outlook for the FDA in 2026 likely to be amazing (Wow!) or unexpectedly painful (Yeow!)? This free webinar features assessments and forecasts from a wide range of expert panellists www.eventbrite.com/e/fda-wow-or...

A fine conversation from Davos today, between arguably two of the most admirable leaders of frontier AI platform labs. And ably chaired by Zanny Minton Beddoes. Even if there was no actual discussion of "The day after AGI"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmKA...

"We must stop arguing about whether aging is a disease or if we are extending healthspan. We need to relentlessly focus on identifying new interventions to push human lifespan and performance beyond current limits" - excellent article by Alex Zhavoronkov www.forever.ai/p/woke-longe...

Now available: the recording of yesterday's wide-ranging London Futurists webinar, which was packed full of all sorts of ideas about what are the most useful methods of the discipline of foresight - the methods most likely to have a positive effect on the future www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaJk...

A landmark passed today: Membership of London Futurists has edged past 10,000 See also the listing of the world's "Largest futurology groups" on meetup, www.meetup.com/topics/future/

My thanks to James of Ârc for leading me through this eclectic conversation with many surprise digressions - all building the case for the credibility and moral imperative of abolishing aging. How? Via engaged, liberated, agile communities and the wise use of safe scientist AI.

As AI systems become more capable and more widely deployed, what are the human principles and practices that it will be especially important for us to retain and uphold, and not to surrender to AIs?

The headline should say "he's found a *potential* *partial* fix" - but I agree that Bengio's design is encouraging - "AI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio says he’s found a fix for AI’s biggest risks and become more optimistic by ‘a big margin’ on humanity’s future" fortune.com/2026/01/15/a...

"Three slides and two videos" - the latest newsletter from London Futurists: 1) A world laden with contrasting possibilities; 2) Discord Debrief; 3) Two videos from Professor Bruce Lloyd; 4) Plans for a larger in-person gathering. Read it at londonfuturists.com/2026/01/15/t...

The deep fake misinfocalypse is upon us. An AI fabrication can travel 99% of the way around the world before the truth can get its boots on www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

"Should we pause AI? Here’s the debate" - a very clear 15 minute video, with engaging animations. The video also highlights the importance of alignment research, capability evals, improved AI lab cybersecurity, and public education www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUB_...

They’re all worthwhile episodes but this one in particular reorganized some details of my thinking over the holidays. I think this podcast works well because enough latitude is given for interpretation of each topic, without getting lost in abstraction.

"From forecasts to levers" - the latest from London Futurists: 1) "44 facts to start the year with optimism" 2) Beyond naïve optimism 3) How can better foresight actually improve the world? 4) Podcast: Anticipating 2026 5) Progress at LEVF (continued)

Just published: a 368 page volume of essays, "Technologies of the Future Self: An Ethics for Transhuman Flourishing". It includes a chapter by yours truly, "Human Flourishing Requires Transhumanist Flourishing"

Anticipated in 2026: AI models keep on improving (there's no "silicon ceiling" in sight); AI agents in wider use; AI models power new waves of cyber attacks; many more people experience status dissonance due to: the pace of change, AI-generated misinformation, and loss of jobs...

Futurists and other practitioners of foresight have often created impressive-looking reports - which have frequently *failed* to bring about meaningful improvements in the worlds of economics and politics. What's gone wrong? What's been lacking?

The Resentment Party - an accurate name

Give yourself a year-end treat and watch what is probably the best documentary about Demis Hassabis and DeepMind. Demis and his team remain my #1 bet for the people most likely to create AGI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J...

My Christmas Eve message, 2025: Use it or lose it! Use our freedom to rise above distractions, whilst there's still a chance to alter outcomes. So, let's make wise choices in 2026 - lest our freedoms shrink, and we no longer have options for meaningful choices from 2027 onward.

The “Oligarch Control Problem” arguably deserves as much attention as the traditional AI Control Problem

The AI race dynamic between the US, China, and the rest of the world, defies any simple characterisation. Defusing the risks of this race requires assembling a variety of different puzzle pieces. Hear from Kayla Blomquist of the Oxford China Policy Lab in the latest London Futurists Podcast.

AI safety and ethics demand global governance. As 2025 draws to an end, check out @GAIGAnow.bsky.social

Persuasive - "Is almost everyone wrong about America’s AI power problem? Why power is less of a bottleneck than you think" open.substack.com/pub/epochai/...

From my LEVF 2025 end-of-year summary: Progress, but not happening quickly enough. Our current and past supporters have provided very generous contributions, but on our current trajectory, the comprehensive cure and prevention of age-related disease remains too far in the future

The new book by journalist Stephen Witt, "The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip", is full of absorbing insights. For a brief taste, check out the latest London Futurists Podcast episode, where the author shares some of his thinking

Because they deal with huge themes, some films deserve to be seen on a huge screen. Nuremberg covers events in 1946 but addresses topics that will be highly relevant whenever the world attempts repairs after the current disastrous leadership in both Russia and the USA

One of the most important research directions for humanity's future is being pursued by LEVF – the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation – whose Executive Director, David Wood @dw-2.bsky.social, has written an End-of-Year Update, republished on our website: transhumanist-party.org/2025/12/10/l....

Live streaming from UK's Westminster Hall: A parliamentary debate on AI Safety. Expected to include attention to questions of existential safety. From 2:30pm today UK time www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

The momentum is growing: "Scores of UK parliamentarians join call to regulate most powerful AI systems; Campaign urges PM to show independence from US and push to rein in development of superintelligence" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Scenarios for 2030 - the latest newsletter from London Futurists: 1) Beyond foresight-as-usual (15th Dec); 2) Global Catastrophic Risks Report 2026; 3) Statement on Superintelligence passes 128k signatures; 4) What’s your p(Pause)? londonfuturists.com/2025/12/06/s...

Tristan Harris is one of the world's best communicators about the huge societal risks of hurried adoption of AI. This 2 hrs 22 mins interview features zinger after zinger of "OMG" phrases. His humanitarian impulses shine strongly. I thoroughly recommend it www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFU1...

A glimpse of 2026: The techlash is becoming uglier and nastier www.techdirt.com/2025/12/05/r...

Given the winner-take-all stakes, we cannot expect AI companies to become more safety-minded and more collaborative as their products come closer to AGI. (That expectation would be another example of the dangerous claim that greater intelligence automatically leads to greater collaboration.)

Instead of the customary question "What's your p(Doom)?", the latest London Futurists Podcast features the question "What's your p(Pause)?" Many thanks to Holly Elmore of Pause AI US for sharing lots of her insight about the strengths and weaknesses of the AI safety community

Will a more powerful AI automatically act with kindness and selflessness, just on account of its greater intelligence? In his latest video, Dan Faggella provides arguments from nature, human history, and logic, against that deeply dangerously assumption www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVAt...

A reminder that human catastrophes often involve strained relations between multiple systems: A volcanic eruption, climate change, disruptions in trade routes, and the emergence in Europe of the Black Death plague www.bbc.com/news/article...

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

Good points here - "The rise of AI denialism: Conversations about an imminent 'AI bubble' tend to miss the big picture" bigthink.com/the-present/...

"Beyond Human: How AI is rewriting what it means to be alive" - I enjoyed this two-part recording with a couple of high-spirited interviewees. At one point they summarised our conversation as "a vast discussion about the future". I take that as a compliment :-)

Nearly ten years after I wrote these words on the plausibility of abolishing aging by 2040, some details of my analysis would need to be updated, but the general framework still holds good in my view theabolitionofaging.com/contents/for...

Anyone talking about the future now, at the close of 2025, in basically the same way that they talked about the future 3 years ago, hasn't been paying attention to the remarkable new opportunities and risks that are accelerating toward us. We need to go beyond foresight-as-usual

Decentralized governance is a hard, hard problem! Solutions need to go a long way beyond the adoption of tokenomics and a declaration of beneficient intent medium.com/@miulieru/go...

"MAHA says 'reverse aging.' Their budget says otherwise... What I see so far is an administration that says one thing and does another" - a clear-eyed analysis of MAHA hypocrisy reachlevity.com/p/maha-says-...

Even though I call myself a transhumanist, I have a lot of sympathy with the content of this article: "Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts" www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

In or near Glasgow on Sunday 30th November? Interested to join a conversation about the different types of risks posed by AI, and the options for responsible AI development? Then sign up for the first Pause AI event taking place in Scotland: luma.com/5bmd6rx8

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

An audacious singularity analogy - a new blogpost from me dw2blog.com/2025/11/06/a...

Shocking, but not surprising - "Google this weekend withdrew one of its latest AIs, Gemma, after it made up unfounded allegations about a US senator having a non-consensual sexual relationship with a state trooper including fake links to news stories" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...