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Jamie Metzl Featured Technology and Healthcare Futurist, Global Affairs Specialist, Science Fiction Novelist, and Genetic Engineering Expert
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Since a “pause” on the development of artificial intelligence is a non-starter, we should devote our resources to preparing for the social and economic displacements that we know are coming. The key will be to let AIs and humans each do what they do best, and to figure out how AI and humans can best work together on everything else.
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Q&A Interview with Jamie Metzl: We need a global OS upgrade
In this Q&A, leading technology and healthcare futurist Jamie Metzl discusses a range of topics and trend lines that will unfold over the next several decades: whether a version of Moore's Law applies to genetic technologies, the ethics of genetic engineering, the dangers of gene hacking, the end of sex, and much more.
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The Future, According to Jamie Metzl
In a coffee shop near New York's Central Park, where Metzl trains for ultramarathons, Brunswick Partner Raul Damas talked with Jamie about the next stage of human reproduction, and why storytelling can help leaders of business prepare for a radically transformed future.
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The Metaverse Could Become an Oppressive Dystopia. It Needs a Congress.
Jamie shares his insights on how since the future of the Metaverse is not predetermined, the difference between these utopian and dystopian futures is still up for grabs.
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Stifling debate on the virus makes another one more likely
A number of people have asked whether the recent increase in attention to the pandemic origins has felt like vindication for the small number of us who have been pushing against the tide since early last year by raising essential questions challenging the dominant narrative and calling for a full investigation into all credible hypotheses. The answer is not really or, perhaps, not yet. Our goal is not attention or media interviews but a full investigation, with China's involvement if at all possible but without that if not, to help us understand what went wrong and address our greatest vulnerabilities.
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As the pandemic rages on, we must demand accountability from the World Health Assembly
You may have never heard of the World Health Assembly, an annual meeting of health ministers from around the world that opens Monday, but your safety and that of future generations may well depend on what happens in this previously obscure international gathering.
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
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What happened in Wuhan? Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus
A lack of transparency from Chinese officials and looming geopolitical consequences have damaged the credibility of a WHO-led inquiry into how the virus that causes COVID-19 originated. Lesley Stahl reports.
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Miraculous mRNA Vaccines are only the Beginning | Opinion
The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines now being administered across the United States and the globe aren't just providing the first glimmers of hope in our struggle against COVID-19. They are also offering an early look at how the miraculous tools of the genetics revolution will transform our health care and our world over the coming years. But unless we can develop better ways to reap the great benefits while avoiding the potential harms of our Promethean technologies, our moment of triumph could set us on a path to disaster.
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Assembly keynote speaker says ministry must help lay right foundation for nation's rebuilding
Futurist Jamie Metzl says systemic reform is needed to protect the most vulnerable
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OneShared.World Seeks a New Global Operating System
Like the prophets of old, Jamie Metzl bemoans a world wracked by oppression, destruction, poverty and social injustice. This March, as the coronavirus spread its furious tentacles across the world, Metzl had a revelation...
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OneShared. World Seeks a New Global Operating System
Published in Hadassah Magazine, September 2020, Jamie's article starts with his revelation, “I realized that our biggest problems are global—but the way we are organized is national."
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Think this coronavirus crisis is bad? The next could be worse — if we don't act now
As the coronavirus pandemic, today grows ever-more dangerous, we must not only rise to meet this crisis but also step up our efforts to prepare for even more dangerous pathogens — either naturally emerging or synthetically engineered — that are very likely to follow.
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Covid-19 offers a chance to build a better world. We must seize it.
(CNN)The coronavirus alone didn't itself break our world. It just exposed a world that was already breaking.
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Polymath Jamie Metzl on AI, Genetics, and the Future
Where humanity is heading from a tech futurist and geopolitical expert's view.
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Jamie Metzl on the Future of Genetics – The Joe Rogan Experience MAY 21, 2019
People have been manipulating life for a very long time and our power to manipulate it will only continue to grow. “Our model of what is normal is just going to change”
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His new book "Hacking Darwin" is available...Jamie Metzl by The Joe Rogan May 10, 2019 Experience
Podcast with Joe Rogan on Jamie's new book, "Hacking Darwin."
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Ten steps to prepare for an exponential future
1. Do what you can to preserve your youth 2. Quantify and monitor your health 3. Freeze your essential biological materials 4.If you plan on ever having children, freeze your eggs or your sperm 5.Manage your public identity 6.Learn the language of code 7.Become multicultural 8.Become an obsessive learner 9.Invest in physical community 10. Don't get stuck in today
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Polymath Jamie Metzl on AI, Genetics, and the Future
Where humanity is heading from a tech futurist and geopolitical expert's view.
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Ten steps to prepare for an exponential future
It took around 12,000 years to move from the agrarian to the industrial revolution but only a couple of hundred years to go from the industrial to the information revolution that's now propelling us in a short number of decades into the artificial intelligence revolution.
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Profile of Jamie from Psychology Today
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Kim Jong Un Has No Intention of Giving Up His Nukes
Kim Jong Un has no intention of giving up his nukes.
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Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, Made for Each Other?
Jamie Metzl, a senior fellow of the Atlantic Council, has served as a director on the US National Security Council, at the State Department and on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff. He also served with the United Nations in Cambodia and is author of "Eternal Sonata" and three other books. The views expressed in this commentary are his own.
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Trump Has Made a Bad North Korea Situation Even Worse
North Korea's Kim is less constrained by his government institutions than is Trump, but we do not yet fully know how effectively America's governance culture and institutions can moderate the dangerous, destabilizing, and mercurial impulses of the US President.
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A Modern Day Renaissance Man Shares Lessons On Happiness, Habits, And Health
This Huffington Post interview with Jamie went viral and even inspired a new musical score based on its themes
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Homo Sapiens 2.0: We Need a Species-Wide Conversation on the Future of Human Genetic Engineering
After 4 billion years of evolution by one set of rules, our species is about to begin evolving by another. Overlapping and mutually reinforcing revolutions in genetics, information technology, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and other fields are providing the tools that will make it possible to genetically alter our future offspring should we choose to do so. For some very good reasons, we will. As the genetic revolution plays out, it will raise fundamental questions about what it means to be human, unleash deep divisions within and between groups, and could even lead to destabilizing international conflict..
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It's Time for the United States to Talk About Genetics
This Washington Post editorial calls for a wide-ranging and structured national and international dialogue on the rapidly unfolding genetics revolution
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The Revolution in DNA Science -- And What To Do About It
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In the Twilight Rise Up Monsters: Why the Trump Foreign Policy Undermines US and World Security
The United States is facing perhaps the most dangerous moment since the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack or the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. This danger does not stem from terrorism, immigration, or Islamic extremism but instead from the rapid deterioration of the post-World War Two international order. The Trump administration did not create this crisis but is contributing to it massively. Unless this changes, the ensuing conflict will likely destabilize the world and undermine America’s security.
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Uncovering a Global Health Conspiracy in Jamie Metzl's Near-Future Thriller
Interview with WNYC's Leonard Lopate
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The Coming Collapse of North Korea
Those predicting North Korea's imminent collapse have continually been proven wrong. But today, the North Korean madness may well be nearing its endgame.
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AI supported medical processes can help to save human health care professionals