Dear Colleagues,

In this newsletter issue we first come back on the  UN High-level meeting on PPPR in New York from 25 September. Turned out there were quite some  ‘red lines’ for the US administration (surprise, surprise) ànd for the EU (also not really unexpected, given its rather rigid stance in the neverending PABS discussions).  

Meanwhile, it seems much less of a problem for our western leaders that all sorts of ‘red lines’ are currently being crossed in the race towards AI, both in the short term  (with a panoply of social and ecological harms already visible, not really compensating for the benefits so far for ordinary people) and medium term.  By the way, while I take Bill Gates with a grain of salt on a number of topics (climate change, his discourse on ‘rich countries’ still stuck in the MDG era, Epstein…), I tend to pay a lot more attention when he discusses technology. His view on the risks of AI in an interview earlier this week, ‘unchecked AI could ‘cause a...